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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 3 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source
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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. eschaton ◴[01 May 24 08:43 UTC] No.40220930[source]▶
We don’t regulate where people can smoke tobacco because of the smell, we regulate where people can smoke tobacco because of the health impact of secondhand smoke.
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2. eadmund ◴[06 May 24 00:26 UTC] No.40269924[source]▶
> the health impact of secondhand smoke

Which is Ø. ‘Secondhand smoke’ is just an excellent reframing of ‘smell I dislike.’

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3. eschaton ◴[06 May 24 00:58 UTC] No.40270113[source]▶
Hmm, I’ll be sure to tell the people I know with health problems from secondhand smoke that they’re wrong then, and that they should just get over themselves.