I mean… if you are always high then that isn’t wrong is it?

hell yea

K2-18b is a nothing burger. The scientist who made the announcement has done similar before, he seems to really want to be THE person who discovers life on another planet so he skews facts and ignores other facts just for the small chance of being right. Watch this: https://youtu.be/HYjYvKoQVeM

I was thinking what this magnificent brutalist building is

To each his own, and though I have never consumed any kind of drugs nor think I ever will (nor can't understand the need of drugs beyond medical field, pretty much contrary of what it is stated in the quote of this post), I concede keeping it illegal while at the same time alcohol and nicotine are both completely legal is one of the reasons I still think our so-called "civilization" is extremely idiotic, mediocre and pathetic. Either make all of them legal but regulate their consumption or make it so it never bothers anyone else or anything else in any way, or make all of them illegal - but the disparity of current legislation about all of them around the world is just nonsense.

TBF, just imagine what a place the world would be if the world leader's idea of quality downtime would be a fat bong, Cartoon Channel and pizza.

I must ask why; the prohibition of it doesn't make any sense to me at all. It's all but proven fact that it's not any more harmful than either smoking cigarettes, or drinking alcohol.

Both of which are completely legal to consume all day, every day.

Weed simply doesn't deserve the status it is given, it was placed on schedule 1 as a gigantic middle finger from the ruling class, against the working class. They did it to punish those they saw as their lessers, and so they could have the police rough up anyone because they owned a small amount of the substance. But the cigarettes and alcohol they've enjoyed for decades and many of them have profited from? Those are fine. This new thing (at the time) that they aren't profiting off of? Let's make it illegal, so we can force everyone to use the things we do profit from.

That's basically the backstory here.

Why you, or anyone would oppose lifting that prohibition is confusing at best, racist/classest at worst.

I'm genuinely curious how you have come to have the position you do. If you don't like it, nobody is going to force you to use the stuff, same with alcohol and cigarettes. So why do you care?

I've been a huge pothead for decades and I honestly haven't noticed an increase in content while smoking regular weed. I think that's the branded stuff that sends you out of orbit.

But if it has changed, that just means I smoke less to get to the high I like by smoking the equivalent of one joint during the day. It's so much less smoke for my lungs this way, I'm not complaining. Lol

And this rising potency is a direct consequence of cannabis being illegal. Producers are breeding stronger and stronger strains with higher THC content and lower CBD to get the most bang for their buck. This is true for all illicit drugs, as they tend towards becoming more potent when they need to be smuggled (e.g. why fentanyl is often added to heroin, as it delivers more potency per gram).

If you legalise and regulate it, suddenly that pressure is taken away. Cannabis is produced in consistent and known strengths, distributed in packaging that clearly states the potency so people can make informed choices about what they take.

Really nice thing for us green dragon enthusiasts though.

A consequence of its prohibition. History keeps on repeating itself, yet we never learn.

I keep hearing that it's supposed to be much stronger these days, but my experience is just the opposite.

I was a heavy weed smoker in my young years, smoking standard generic pressbud, and it got me nicely stoned. I even had a couple of years where I was growing my own, so I'm very experienced with fresh homegrown weed, which was beautiful. Tasted great, with a very satisfying intense high. Then I quit smoking for a few decades.

I recently started smoking again in my retirement, and was looking forward to trying this stronger weed I was hearing about. I've tried legal weed from various states, and none of it gets me nearly as stoned as the cheap pressbud of my youth.

This is just anecdotal, but that's been my experience.

"I'm biased against cannabis but also I'm afraid of it"

Don't forget "from scratch" lol

If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.

Yeah that quote is very naive and privileged.

Maybe weed isn’t relevant in that case, let’s not forget that in the US, weed was promoted by liberals and opposed by the MAGA crowd.

This is why I really fear it. Then again it helped me find god. Which i then realized structurally does create the complacent worker through pacifying rather than inciting any real change. So I am back to thinking it is a crutch.