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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 10 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 1.385s | source | bottom
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qwerty456127 ◴[01 May 24 01:52 UTC] No.40218673[source]▶
Great news. A very sound move. Indeed, marijuana is much less dangerous of a drug yet considerably harmful in cases of chronic use in unreasonably high doses therefore should be controlled some way. What seems problematic nowadays is teenagers smoking too much. Also the idea of stoned people driving cars sounds scary. To me it seems it should be as available and legal as alcohol and cigarettes are, no less, no more.

What I'm curious about is how marijuana availability links to consumption of other drugs including hard drugs, alcohol, tobacco, tranquilizers and antidepressants. I hypothesize it may decrease these.

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xeonmc ◴[01 May 24 02:13 UTC] No.40218799[source]▶
The biggest problem is not the self-harm aspect but rather the social ramifications.

Regulations and social expectations of where you can smoke should be as-strict as tobacco smoking, if not more since weed is just so much more stinky.

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1. bdhess ◴[01 May 24 03:00 UTC] No.40219066[source]▶
Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it.

Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.

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2. BenFranklin100 ◴[01 May 24 03:10 UTC] No.40219101[source]▶
The smell from marijuana smoke lingers and travels in a way tobacco smoke does not. Most people other than users find it significantly more offensive than tobacco.
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3. mattmaroon ◴[01 May 24 03:25 UTC] No.40219167[source]▶
Disagree. If you’re at a concert and someone smokes weed everyone is like “right on”. You smoke a cigarette and people want to fight you.
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4. BenFranklin100 ◴[01 May 24 03:37 UTC] No.40219250{3}[source]▶
What does this have to do with how the respective smells linger?
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5. xeonmc ◴[01 May 24 03:59 UTC] No.40219368[source]▶
I hate both. Hence I said it should be as strict, if not more.
6. bamboozled ◴[01 May 24 05:28 UTC] No.40219809{4}[source]▶
It's less offensive of an order as the complete shit that's in cigarettes and it also doesn't stick to your clothing and linger in the same way.
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7. Reubachi ◴[01 May 24 14:27 UTC] No.40223732[source]▶
Any burning organics will be different sample to sample, and any "smell" judgement of such will be subjective.

Almost objectively, we all have anecdotal memories of being overwhelmed by tobacco residue in a car, room, clothing etc.

^ Not like "someone just smoked a cigarette in here, yuck" but more like "this room is destroyed from 20 years of tobacco smoke, we can't sell this".

I would suspect that very very few people have ever sat in a car and said "someone has smoked cannabis in here for years, it's destroyed."

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8. BenFranklin100 ◴[01 May 24 14:34 UTC] No.40223825{3}[source]▶
I don’t care about a car or home destroyed by tobacco use. Those are easy for me to avoid. Sitting on my porch and nightly taking in the smell of weed from a neighbor 50 feet away is a different story. That doesn’t happen with tobacco smoke. The smell of marijuana travels in a way tobacco doesn’t.
9. mattmaroon ◴[01 May 24 14:53 UTC] No.40224098{5}[source]▶
Subjective but I feel like it is less harsh on my lungs secondhand too
10. mattmaroon ◴[04 May 24 20:36 UTC] No.40260102{4}[source]▶
I was disagreeing more with your second sentence, however as for the lingering, I also disagree. I have a couple contractors who were working in my warehouse and smoking skunk weed the whole time. (I know, I know, but they do good work.) The smell was gone the next day.

But you smoke a cigarette in an enclosed space and I’ll still smell it in a couple days. I think it must be the tar and other additives, and now I kind of want to find someone who smokes natural tobacco to come do it and see if I’m right.