I can definitely understand peoples’ issues with it being consumed, especially in a political context, but how do yall feel about “weed”? I won’t hide my feelings, I am very much pro-weed, it’s not great that I started in my mid-teens but in my area it’s FAR from uncommon. I don’t smoke daily or anything, I’m not addicted to it (people say it’s non-habit forming but any drug can be addictive with enough frequent usage) but I do smoke and dab w/ friends often. That’s not why I believe in legalization tho, my main thing is you shouldn’t make a naturally occurring plant an illegal substance. I’d point to the DEA’s destructive (legal) burning of thousands of naturally occurring marijuana plants found in nature; This seems eco-fascist to me and to deny the uses of hemp as a production material seems dogmatic to me. The USSR used hemp for industrial purposes during the war and it helped in a major way. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the badge given for Hemp growers. If you have any criticisms, I’m more than open to it, but I feel that marijuana won’t be easy to get rid of in future society and would probably be put to use in different more productive ways.
Cannabis was made illegal by racism and cause the paper industry didn’t wanna lose out profits to hemp.
It’s quite literally medicine for me, it should be legalized completely.
Edit: I have autism and ADHD, the former of which there are no drugs to treat. It certainly doesn’t make you “lazy” if anything it makes any kind of work bearable. I feel like these anti-cannabis stances are just regurgitated propaganda to keep it illegal, because it would do a lot more good than prescription drugs.
I think some comrades get so caught up in theory and societal structure that they forget that the primary goal of all of this is to have some fucking fun! If doing drugs on your days off is how you want to do that I support you. As long as you’re able to be educated on the correct usage and side effects beforehand. And if you feel like it’s becoming a problem and you’d like some help and support then the state should provide that for you. This is all much simpler and effective to implement than prohibition btw.
And of course, medicinal use is a whole other reason as you mentioned.
haha seriously tho, weed is such a minor vice, on the same level as unhealthy food, that it’s not worth spending too much time talking about. There are harder drugs that actually do serious harm to communities that would have more worthwhile discussion about how socialist states should deal with them.
Hey man, I also medicate for similar reasons and agree that people don’t understand marijuana well enough to make informed judgment.
The Marijuana plant is composed of 10s of terpenes, cannabinoids, flavanoids, and there are tens of thousands of varieties with new ones being created everyday. The composition of each strain can be vastly different, and have a wide spectrum of effects. Not all of which are the classic “stoned” that people associate with weed.
There are non-psychoactive strains that can help with anything from anxiety, to inflammation, CFS, IBS, pain, and more.
For ADHD, Sativa strains high in CBDv, THCv, and CBG. Terpenes: Limonene, Pinene, Caryophyellene, Linalool. If the strain doesn’t have much CBD or CBC, consider adding some CBD flower to keep the anxiety/ paranoia down.
Yep I use those strains colloquially referred to as “green crack”, my favorite is what dispos call Jack Herer – the idea that all weed makes you lazy would be shattered in an instant if y’all saw me light up then clean my house like a maniac (because it doesn’t hurt, and I’m able to make new connections in my brain, like learning how to love labor for its own sake!)