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.
Agree except identity politics aren’t something liberal, they have been coopted by liberalism.
Its bad which ever way you cut it; othering drug users on ‘common sense’ lines ignores the historical reasoning behind the US export of drug laws; trade and supressing black & lefitst voters in america.
In regards to Asias reluctance, just look at the Opium wars; that was the British.
Edit: Also I call it ‘liberal IDpol’ because thats what drug divisions are, a liberal generated form of IDpol that socialist countries accept uncritically; A sociological analysis of the topic always leads to legalization for a reason.