• @FishFace
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    -191 year ago

    Do you support the legalisation of cannabis or other drugs?

    • @[email protected]
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      461 year ago

      I do. And as a smoker, I also support attempts to eliminate tobacco. It’s a shit drug, only good at making the craving stop for a bit, and it’s awful for your health and general quality of life.

      • @SupraMario
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        -201 year ago

        And other drugs including cannabis are ok for your health? What about alcohol?

        Tobacco is a vice, stop wanting nanny state rules only when they fit you.

        Also obesity is the number one killer for Western nations now…where is the sugar and McDonald’s ban?

        • @set_secret
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          131 year ago

          The argument you’ve presented oversimplifies complex public health issues by lumping together unrelated substances and policies.

          Tobacco, universally acknowledged for its lack of health benefits and high harm potential, is incomparable to substances like cannabis or alcohol, which may have varied effects and potential positive uses.

          The term ‘nanny state’ is a reductive way to dismiss nuanced health policies that aim to balance regulation with individual freedom.

          Regarding obesity, it’s a multifactorial issue. A simplistic approach like banning sugar or fast food ignores the broader socio-economic and lifestyle factors at play (although a sugar tax is probably not a terrible idea).

          • @SupraMario
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            -51 year ago

            How so? Tobacco is a vice which has health benefits such as organic pesticides and cognitive research against dementia and Alzheimer’s. It’s a vice just like cannabis and alcohol is. Neither of which when used in the way the majority of people use them have any health benefits.

            Nanny state is exactly what trying to ban a vice is. Prohibition is a nanny state response.

            What does that have to do with my comments pointing out obesity is a way bigger problem than tobacco is? Tobacco is being used as a scapegoat, while increased alcoholism and obesity is at epidemic levels. Tobacco is no longer an issue of public health in western nations. Education has basically fixed this.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Weed can have huge benefits for health, just look at multiple sclerosis.

          Sugar and fat are good if not abused. But yes, I do believe restaurants shouldn’t be allowed to sell 2000 calories monstrosities.

          Smoking tobacco has zero (health) benefits. It’s just a net loss on society (except for those who produce, sell and tax it) and thus shouldn’t exist.

          EDIT: better?

          • @SupraMario
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            -81 year ago

            Tobacco is used as an organic pesticide

            Nicotine is also being tested for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

            Do alcohol…and tell me if it should be allowed next.

            • gregorum
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              Tobacco is used as an organic pesticide

              Nicotine is also being tested for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

              nobody has proposed banning them for those uses. are you asserting that someone has?

              • @SupraMario
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                01 year ago

                Literally the post I replied to says it has no benefits and shouldn’t exist…

          • @SupraMario
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            -31 year ago

            Really? Great addition to the conversation…love when you nanny state shits show up.

        • Nima
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          51 year ago

          they think prohibition works. it never does. History always repeats itself.

          don’t waste your time on them.

          • @SupraMario
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            21 year ago

            True, they’re the same ones who would have been marching to ban alcohol…

          • @set_secret
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            11 year ago

            The real problem with tobacco is that the use of it harms others around the people using it.

            I agree banning drugs is not the best option. Education and support is better.

            Gas and diesil cars are the other things can think of that are terrible for the health those around them. And they need to be banned asap too. For multiple reasons. But health is definitely one.

            • Nima
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              11 year ago

              Agreed. Education is the way to move forward. Banning it just creates more problems and solves none.

            • @SupraMario
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              01 year ago

              How does using it harm others? Unless you’re straight up locked in a room with a chain smoker for a few years it’s about as bad for you as sitting in traffic or near a camp fire.

              Education is already working, as a very small portion of western nations smoke now. In the USA it’s less than 9% and that’s for all tobacco users which includes vaping. So cig smokers are probably around %5 at most now. Tobacco is a non-issue and is blinding us from other problems.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          In the UK sugar tax is a thing. People are going to consume stupid amounts of sugar so we may as well increase the taxes to hopefully fund the diabetes mellitus treatment in later life.

          In the same vain I support higher taxes on tobacco. Whether that sends people to the black market remains to be seen.

          • @SupraMario
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            -21 year ago

            Ok but this isn’t about a tax it’s an all out ban…so which is it you’re ok with the ban or not?

            • @[email protected]
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              61 year ago

              I’m not the other person.

              I was merely pointing out there are other ways.

              For what it’s worth I am not for banning things. Drugs have been illegal my whole life and it hasn’t stopped me.