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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 2 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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lambdaba ◴[30 Apr 24 18:32 UTC] No.40214463[source]▶
Great, now do psilocybin, LSD and MDMA.
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Extropy_ ◴[30 Apr 24 18:50 UTC] No.40214711[source]▶
DMT and mescaline too.
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a_wild_dandan ◴[30 Apr 24 19:13 UTC] No.40215017[source]▶
Do all of them. To me, government exists to mediate interactions between parties. Not to get involved in personal choices. If someone wants to rip fat lines of coke, good for them. Not my business.
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1. krapp ◴[30 Apr 24 19:16 UTC] No.40215044[source]▶
Do you think people who rip fat lines of coke will never interact with society in any way that affects you?

Of course government gets involved in personal choices. Every crime committed by a person is a personal choice. Interactions between parties are interactions between people. The distinction you're trying to draw here doesn't exist.

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2. OkayPhysicist ◴[30 Apr 24 22:13 UTC] No.40217073[source]▶
Legitimate crimes have a perpetrator and a victim. That's two parties in conflict. Drug possession only has 1 party, the person possessing or doing the drugs, and drug sales have two parties who aren't in conflict.