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I can see our current government legalizing cannabis for the revenue, it would be right on brand.
It's true, but legalising cannabis for revenue rather than health reasons wouldn't be a great move
Objectively a better move than prosecution by any stretch of the imagination.
Having participated in both medical and consumer cannabis I can tell you having a doctor running 4 clinics at once over zoom doesn't do much for "patient protection".
Objectively a better move than prosecution by any stretch of the imagination.
I agree. But I don't think a legal, highly commercialised system is going to be much better than what we have now, at least in health terms. See: alcohol and tobacco.
just legalise it already I'm so over this BS attitude of how it will harm society. let the government tax it and take the money from the gangs. saying that, the NAct move to return pseudoephedrine is just going to wash the country in cheap meth and cause a massive societial issue, way more than smoking weed will ever do https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/23/pharmacists-fear-reversing-pseudoephedrine-ban-could-endanger-workers/
There are many different ways you can do legalisation. You can do it carefully so that people can grow it themselves, or you can make it highly commercial, restricting what individuals can do, and creating an industry that has vested interests and lobbies for laws in their favour, has misleading advertising and preys on the vulnerable. Because we missed our chance to do it the first way, we seem much more likely to end up with the second way.
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