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Question for those of you living in a country where marijuana is legal. What are the positive sides, what are the negatives?
If you could go back in time, would you vote for legalising again? Does it affect the country's illegal drug business , more/less?
I just wanna note that we're ~~basically blind~~ when it comes to the health impacts, positive or negative, of cannabis right now. This will change in the coming years, but for now it's impossible to tell what the cons are.
Edit: Turns we're not blind, just mildly visually impaired.
not sure I agree with you. we've had generation after generation after generation of people smoking/using cannabis. Whatever ramifications using cannabis has would have shown up by now.
Were scientific studies conducted on cannabis users before legalization? Because if not then it's gonna be hard to notice anything but the most obvious stuff.
Edit: The answer is yes but not as much as one would like.
I'm not sure, you'll have to look into that and let me know as I'd be interested to know about that myself.
The issue is I had was with the use of the word "blind". As if cannabis was a new and unknown substance. While I've no doubt we've a lot more to learn about cannabis to say we're "blind" is disingenuous at best.
Okay fair enough. Also apparently there's a whole Wikipedia article on the topic so we already know a lot about this stuff, though long-term effects are more tenuous due to legal restrictions.
Exactly, so "blind" really isn't the best descriptor of our understanding on cannabis, by the looks of it we're quite informed.
Yeah true enough. Lemme edit that.