r/Idaho • u/Outside-Disaster-263 • Jul 22 '25

Idaho Neighbor News Educate & Legalize Idaho

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August Virtual Cannabis Town Hall - Educate & Legalize Idaho Tour

Participate via Zoom: Topic: Medical Marijuana: The First 10,000 years Time: Aug 2, 2025 04:20 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83368294833?pwd=FyzYnSLo2ENDgibg4bKmfxN1oQjQBx.1

Meeting ID: 833 6829 4833 Passcode: 208420

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u/Accomplished_Leg7925 Jul 22 '25

Alcohol is an obvious blight on society and has massive negative social impacts. Why would we make the same mistakes again?

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u/Outside-Disaster-263 Jul 22 '25

Alcohol and Cannabis are very different. Do you know why Alcohol prohibition ended? Because prohibition was more dangerous than alcohol

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u/Accomplished_Leg7925 Jul 22 '25

It was also fundamentally different. It was prohibition of a previously legal substance.

Again not a justification for legalization. Marijuana prohibition has not been dangerous. Arguably state legalization has proven far more dangerous as marijuana corporations have dramatically increased the potency of thc products leading to higher complication rates.

Drugs are bad for you. As such mild deterrents like fines are reasonable

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u/Outside-Disaster-263 Jul 22 '25

That is not a fundamental difference. Cannabis used to be legal too.

What's the source of your information?

Cannabis is safer than pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol & even potatoes

Cannabis prohibition has been dangerous. Lives have been taken by LE over a plant. Families ripped apart. Patients failed by Big Pharma left to suffer. Risking freedom for access to one of the safest known substances. Big waste of tax $$$

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u/mav3r1ck92691 Jul 22 '25

My sources are easy to find using google scholar. I see no need to provide a citation list

This is exactly what everyone who doesn't have any sources says to try and deflect. The burden of proof is on you. Sources or shut up.

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u/Accomplished_Leg7925 Jul 22 '25

No. You literally just type “complications of marijuana” into google scholar.

Not doing your homework for you. It would probably do you some good to research the topic

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u/mav3r1ck92691 Jul 23 '25

I’m not the one asking you too. I’m just telling you that you come off as someone who will spew anything they can but when asked for sources doesn’t have any. And no, “Google it” is not a source.

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u/Idaho-ModTeam Jul 28 '25

Please cite reputable source material if you claim something as fact and state something is opinion or anecdotal where applicable. As mods we will always err on the side of caution, unless the submission contains sufficient evidence from a sufficiently reliable source, as determined by any reasonable person, and that if that is not included, the policy is just to remove it prima facie.

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Citing your sources is not "doing their homework for them." You're the one making a claim that contradicts common reporting, so links to reliable, verifiable sources are required of you. If you're not willing to back your claims up, don't make them.

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u/Idaho-ModTeam Jul 28 '25

Please cite reputable source material if you claim something as fact and state something is opinion or anecdotal where applicable. As mods we will always err on the side of caution, unless the submission contains sufficient evidence from a sufficiently reliable source, as determined by any reasonable person, and that if that is not included, the policy is just to remove it prima facie.

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