I honestly don't think legalising is the best path looking at SF, California reporting after harm reduction campaign. Maybe empathetic rehabilitation.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

If you have underlying issues with anxiety and paranoia, adding marijuana to the mix exacerbates these issues greatly and becomes a poor crutch for dealing with them. I've seen friends and family who smoked 2-3x weekly for a few years develop eyebrow-raising mental problems. So I tend to agree.

Personal anecdote, N=4.

(Yeah of course, alcohol is just as bad, or worse in extreme cases, but people can usually sense the damage being done to them by it afterwards. Pot's effects are internal. It's hard to reflect until it's too late.)

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Buddy the other option here is not them managing to deal with it, psych health care in germany is abysmally absent, it's becoming alcoholics

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The thing is, they already are. Excessive drinking at a friends house is so normalized here, it's become background. The police might pull you over if you're swerving all over the road on the way back home, but usually they wont. Adding weed to that mix of "normal" background behaviours is going to improve that? I don't think so.

And I'm not saying prohibit all vices. People need their release - of course they do - but rather than encourage new addictions behind closed doors, can't we just make it easier for people to hang out in public at night?

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