I can definitely understand peoples’ issues with it being consumed, especially in a political context, but how do yall feel about “weed”? I won’t hide my feelings, I am very much pro-weed, it’s not great that I started in my mid-teens but in my area it’s FAR from uncommon. I don’t smoke daily or anything, I’m not addicted to it (people say it’s non-habit forming but any drug can be addictive with enough frequent usage) but I do smoke and dab w/ friends often. That’s not why I believe in legalization tho, my main thing is you shouldn’t make a naturally occurring plant an illegal substance. I’d point to the DEA’s destructive (legal) burning of thousands of naturally occurring marijuana plants found in nature; This seems eco-fascist to me and to deny the uses of hemp as a production material seems dogmatic to me. The USSR used hemp for industrial purposes during the war and it helped in a major way. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the badge given for Hemp growers. If you have any criticisms, I’m more than open to it, but I feel that marijuana won’t be easy to get rid of in future society and would probably be put to use in different more productive ways.

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      I don’t see much value in doing that to be honest, and I don’t think it would be possible to accomplish that to any meaningful effect in western culture.

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          I think it’s more of an argument that society generally functions fine with those two being legal, and since weed is arguably less dangerous there’s no rational reason to ban it.

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            The idea that we shouldn’t allow a substance to temporarily alter our state of mind with the possibility of permanently changing how we think about things really feels like internalized bourgeois ideology. Psychedelics do a pretty good job of lifting the veil of liberalism in my own experience.

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              I never saw the movie “They Live” but I hear that some people interpreted the glasses in the film to be like psychedelics, is that accurate? I have not done psychedelics or seen the movie lol so I have no clue

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                I didn’t see it either. I just peeked at a YouTube clip and I would say it’s way more subtle than that. I guess you could say the result is the same if the result is the realization that things may not be as they appear. I did get so high on mushrooms one time that many of my visual memories from that day are monochromatic.