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Super Joe
Jun 22, 2012

I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused.

eSports Chaebol posted:

I know that it's a losing proposition for any legalization campaign, but it would genuinely be a great benefit to public health if there were a concerted effort to destigmatize marijuana in order to convince people who self-medicate with alcohol to use marijuana instead.

It would be a losing proposition for any legalization campaign because it's complete nonsense. If someone is self medicating with alcohol then they should get real treatment, not substitute with a different recreational drug.

True, there are some people who would rather smoke pot than drink, but I doubt many of them are alcoholics.

Besides, the two drugs have completely different effects. If it were possible to truly substitute then I would drink more often. This whole idea of substitution is drug war nonsense. Henry Anslinger invented the idea to justify pot prohibition and then applied it in the other direction when it suited his purposes.

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Super Joe
Jun 22, 2012

I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused.
I posted this in TCC, but I think it's pretty appropriate here, too:

:thurman:

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