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Germany legalises cannabis, but makes it hard to buy
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—if you just want it— yeah, no. Unless you reallly want it— then come get it.
This is the best they could do after the EU said no to commercial sales and shops.
I'm all for legalization and partake on a monthly basis or so, but I'm kind of down for keeping it more difficult to obtain. Four or five dispensaries per mid-size city should be plenty as long as competition still exists. I work at a school and access to cannabis has become a rising issue. Outside of school, the greater availability has led to "burnouts" being more common.
I think parallels can be drawn to the opioid epidemic and alcohol. Where availability is high, reliance and addiction rises. There's no reason to flood low-income neighborhoods with convenience stores where half or more of the inventory is alcohol.
Sigh . No. Access to cannabis hasn’t led to more burnouts.
I'm speaking from a position of direct evidence. It's caused issues in my region. More children are being caught with THC than before legalization and the proliferation of dispensaries in my state. And its not even close. We've called the ambulance to the school this year once already for a 7th grader getting too high and having a panic attack from their THC laced vape pen. Academic ineligiblity lists have increased year over year for a decade as well. There's other factors at play too like their family's finances, social media, covid, etc. but well over half of the list I know have been caught getting high in and out of school.
And again, I want to reiterate. I support legalization and also use marijuana. But its proven that marijuana use before the brain is fully developed can disrupt proper development. And that can be as late as 25 years old though I support a legal age of 21.
You’re speaking from anecdotal evidence at best.
Okay man. Keep plugging your ears and yelling until you can't ignore valid concerns and questions about weed anymore.
So, I live in Canada, I haven't seen more burnouts or other issues that were said to be associated with weed. Quite the opposite anecdotally speaking.
Neither have the states who legalised or Uruguay for that matter.
I don't know what data you actually have, but it doesn't seem sound.
Care to share your source? (not asking for your dealer, I have a good one myself)
You made a claim about “more burnouts”, and when challenged decided to list every problem you could think of with weed instead of admitting you have no evidence for more burnouts.
You also appear to be conflating consequences associated with prohibition, such as academic ineligibility, with the effects of the actual drug. The point of decriminalizing is to stop ruining people’s lives over a drug.
What do you think happens to students that are failing their classes semester after semester? They eventually drop out of school and go for a GED. And of course im not going to provide "evidence". I cited regional issues with the advent of greater availability. In order to provide direct evidence, I would need to link a very specific study (which wouldn't exist) or I would need to break FERPA laws and provide access to the academic ineligiblity lists. So no. That's not an option.
I'm not sure what you mean? These students are ineligible to participate in after school activities like sports because they're failing their classes, not because they're being punished for cannabis use. There's correlation between behavioral issues, academic performance, and regular cannabis use. Correlation ≠ causation but it is still a discussion worth having.
Now for about the 3rd time, I have no problem with weed. I support recreational legalization and further study for it's use in medicine. It would make my life a whole hell of a lot easier and reduce the amount of opioids flowing through pharmacies, but there's aspects of control that I think we should analyze and address.
How do you know any of these issues are attributed solely to weed? Kids could be failing their classes and smoking weed because their parents beat the shit out of them on a regular basis. I'm sure these kids also drink water so there is definitely some correlation between water usage and kids failing their classes.
I never attributed their failing grades solely to weed. I actually did the opposite and mentioned a few other environmental factors that may also be at play. If you can't zoom out for just a fucking second and come to the conclusion that increased consumption of cannabis amung teens (which is fact) MAY have something to do with falling grades in teens, then in my opinion you're being just as naive as politicians and civilians that want to keep weed as a schedule I drug.
Again, with many things, Germany is ahead of the curve.
The ingredients laws for beer should be translated directly into aerosolizer laws (nic, vg, pg, heavily vetted and approved flavors), and the controls on marijuana sales seem to be going the same way. Good on them.
On the other hand, there are places, where it's so easy to get weed and other drugs even today and delivered directly to your doorstep. In those places it may be easier to stick with your dealer for procurement and enjoy the benefit of decriminalization of possession and consumption than going through the hassle of joining a cannabis club. This in turn would negate some.of the discussed benefits of legalization.