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He needs a good history teacher and therapist.

Absolute lib shit lmao. The man is 77 years old and has never faced consequences for his actions in his entire life. That’s who he is. He’s not going to suddenly reverse his entire personality because you made him talk with a therapist for a couple hours.

Like I understand the desire for rehabilitation, but some people are just fucked.

At any rate he deserves it for his war crimes alone.

Going after Trump for his crimes would set a precedent for going after the rest of them for their crimes. It’s in their interests to not open that door.

The Fediverse has become the iverse

Companies keep nagging about it, sometimes saying: ‘but what about deflation??? Your wage would decline!!!’

But then all the other prices would be decreasing too, so you wouldn’t actually be losing wages. Do people really fall for this shit?

Probably so they can bomb them.

He was a US Navy SEAL who killed 150 people, no way in hell he didn’t commit war crimes.

He wasn’t perfect, sure. But he wasn’t anywhere near as bad as over half a century of imperialist propaganda would have you believe.

Again, it’s not binary for me

Should it be legal for consenting adults or not? Sounds like a binary question to me.

we shouldn’t also (in my opinion) just open the gates and let this substance into foray of our daily lives

You speak as if legalizing cannabis will suddenly make it available everywhere, but it won’t, because it already is everywhere, and it has been for decades. I had no trouble obtaining weed before my state legalized it, and I’m just a boring ass suburban white dude who barely knows anybody. Criminalization has never made cannabis go away, and continued criminalization isn’t going to change that.

I appreciate that you’re concerned about drug abuse and drug addiction, and those are real concerns that I don’t want to minimize, but refusing to legalize it won’t solve those problems, because most countries have been doing that for the better part of a century and it plainly hasn’t worked. If people want to abuse drugs, they’re going to abuse them whether or not they can acquire them legally. But at least when it’s legal people won’t have to fear going to jail because they got harassed by a cop while in possession, and making it legal reduces the stigma of drug abuse and makes seeking treatment easier to do.

If you are a leftist you should be against the criminalization of drug use or drug possession, especially for a drug as relatively harmless as cannabis. Like this really is a no-brainer, throwing someone in jail because they’re addicted to drugs doesn’t help them in any conceivable way. Drug abuse is a mental health problem and should be treated like one. Get them therapy and addiction support to help them get over it, and stop criminalizing drugs for people who can use it responsibly.

The most boomer shit I’ve seen on lemmy yet lmao. Reefer madness ass take.

He started voting illegally in 2008 and it took the courts 16 years to get around to punishing him, and he gets a slap on the wrist for it. Anyone want to guess what his skin color is?

Bankman fried

The bullying is working, keep it up folks

Of course. But look around you. Our governments won’t do that, and no political party that could make it to power is pushing a platform like that. I’m more than happy to make kids playgrounds out of concrete if I knew that bandages were free.

So we should just throw up our hands and do nothing rather than fight for justice.

I agree. But it’s not like Alcohol usage will go down once Cannabis is legalized. If anything, people will use them together in a vicious cycle.

So? There are systems that can deal with these problems. Addiction clinics, therapy, support groups.

Throwing baseball bats into a dangerous hockey arena is never a good idea, even if the bats are made of foam.

Why would foam bats be dangerous to throw into a hockey arena? Have you ever been to a hockey game? They wear all kinds of protective equipment. Throwing foam bats at them would probably not hurt that much, if at all. Actually sounds like it would be pretty fun.

Alcohol’s effects are immediately visible. It’s hard to be an alcoholic and still look at yourself in the mirror happily the next morning. Weed has no such negative phenotype, if anything you will look happier the next morning for abusing it.

Cannabis use is such a menace to society that people who abuse it *checks notes* feel happier the next morning. The horror!

I get that cannabis isn’t a completely harmless drug, like most drugs legal or otherwise, but “it’s not perfectly safe so it should just keep being criminalized” is a bad take that has an entire history of not working. Legalize it and deal with the problems that crop up. Addiction and drug abuse aren’t new problems, we know how to handle them. And for the yet undiscovered health problems that cannabis might cause, legalizing it will open up avenues for research so we can actually figure out its dangers instead of just writing off all cannabis users as (as another user puts it) “mentally fried idiots” or just repeating the same reefer madness nonsense that’s been going around since the Nixon administration.

So legalize it and put effort into treating addictions and mental illnesses. This isn’t very hard.

Yeah of course, alcohol is just as bad, or worse in extreme cases

Most if not all cases. Cannabis is objectively less dangerous in practically every way.

Pot’s effects are internal

And alcohol’s effects aren’t?

Not even stepping down until the end of the year, either. Also,

During his tenure, Calhoun made $24.5 million in salary and benefits and will possibly make a further $45.5 million from stock options he retains and $5 million from a retirement package.

So he murders a whistleblower with a hilariously bad coverup, gets to keep his job for another nine months, and still keeps his bonuses and retirement when he leaves. Can someone explain to me which part of this is supposed to be a punishment, because I’m not seeing it.

Square: easiest way to make boxes

Round: easiest way to prepare pizzas

Triangle: easiest way to cut pizzas

One time someone edited the wikipedia page for Chris Benoit