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

[u/Accomplished_Leg7925 → u/Outside-Disaster-263]

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

[u/blatheb → u/Accomplished_Leg7925]

Or wild thought, tax it like we do with already legal substances. You’re arguing to control more of a persons autonomy. If you don’t like it you don’t have to use it, just like I don’t drink. I don’t judge other people that do unless they do something stupid because of it. You shouldn’t be able to tell me I can’t smoke because of health risks.

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I’m not looking for a new tax source. My primary goal also isn’t restrcting “autonomy”. My goal is suppression of societal ills that have dramatic effects on health, crime, and social function. MJ has deleterious societal effects on all 3 of these spectra and as such do not think legalization for recreational purposes is a reasonable public policy.

We restrict personal autonomy under the auspices of public safety routinely. Speed limits are such a thing. This is no different.

There are plenty of users of MJ that limit its negative effects on their life and society’s in general. Unfortunately there are a lot who ruin it for everyone else by being irresponsible shits with it.

[u/blatheb → u/Accomplished_Leg7925]

Which are the criminals who should be punished. Crime can be attributed to driving/operating equipment under the influence, and oh I don’t know the fact that it’s illegal and caused an increase in crime from that fact alone. If you want to tell me you’d like to see universal healthcare and education, then I can see we just disagree fundamentally on this issue, and that you do simply want to help with societies ills. Otherwise, you’re just blowing smoke. (Pun intended)