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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 12 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 1.383s | source | bottom
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Germanion ◴[30 Apr 24 17:39 UTC] No.40213675[source]▶
Finally!

Then hopefully the f... UN can do that too.

I'm totally shocked that the UN has such a hard and shitty drug policy.

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1. vmchale ◴[30 Apr 24 17:45 UTC] No.40213767[source]▶
SE Asia/East Asia at least have much harsher attitudes on drugs. US is pretty forgiving to drug users &c.
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2. latchkey ◴[30 Apr 24 17:58 UTC] No.40213992[source]▶
Thailand legalized it.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, it may be illegal, but it is everywhere, along with everything else.

Singapore is restrictive, but that's across the board anyway.

Let's not forget that betel nut is everywhere... another plant based drug.

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3. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[30 Apr 24 18:05 UTC] No.40214088[source]▶
US is only lenient when compared to even more severe steamrollers of human rights. Executing individuals for drug possession is absolutely unconsciousable and unacceptable. Incarceration being less diabolical does not mean it is not still highly diabolical. Countless lives were and continue to be destroyed.
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4. djbusby ◴[30 Apr 24 18:09 UTC] No.40214152[source]▶
Tobacco too
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5. latchkey ◴[30 Apr 24 18:13 UTC] No.40214203{3}[source]▶
You're not wrong, but I'm thinking more about the things that are marked as illegal today.
6. akira2501 ◴[30 Apr 24 18:15 UTC] No.40214219[source]▶
Selling hard drugs for a profit is diabolical. It also ruins lives.
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7. pwillia7 ◴[30 Apr 24 18:21 UTC] No.40214317[source]▶
The state killing people is always unjustified since you can't prove 99%+ really did the crime. In fact, we can show the states and feds have put to death many of their own innocent citizens.
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8. creaturemachine ◴[30 Apr 24 18:27 UTC] No.40214412{3}[source]▶
Yet alcohol remains legal.
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9. akira2501 ◴[30 Apr 24 19:23 UTC] No.40215133{4}[source]▶
You're welcome to start making your own alcohol and then selling shots on the street. I'm sure you'll notice the difference very quickly.
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10. fragmede ◴[30 Apr 24 19:29 UTC] No.40215218{5}[source]▶
Compared to selling hard drugs on the street? Technically what you're describing is against the law, but given that people are selling hard drugs on the street, I doubt you could get the cops to care.
11. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[01 May 24 15:00 UTC] No.40224215{3}[source]▶
Hard agree.
12. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[01 May 24 15:01 UTC] No.40224235{3}[source]▶
That is not what we are talking about and you know it.