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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?

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[โ€“] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Where I live they are. As we have universal healthcare.

We still got hit very hard by both a cocaine and heroine crisis.

Not all people who need help will seek it, even if it's free help. A hard lesson to learn, but one you learn while living in a country why vast social programs and universal healthcare but there are still people with severe issues who just refuse to get helped.

[โ€“] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And those people unfortunately aren't going to be helped by prohibition either. In fact, prohibition will only make things much worse for them and everyone else. The knock on affects of prohibition are far worse than most people understand.

I do want to also ask, are you aware if there are any waiting periods whatsoever to get into treatment programs anywhere in your country? I find that in most countries at least somewhere there are prohibitive waiting lists.