re: The Atlantic: weed legalization didn’t deliver on its promises. In fact, it made it worse

I've never had a larger group of people tell me how to "better myself" or try to give lifestyle advice than people on anti depressants.

These people legit need drugs so they don't kill themselves or others around them and then try to give others advice like they have any right to do so.

I've had more people that use hardcore drugs tell me not to > anti depression pussies wanting me to go down their pathetic life path with them.

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This is the stupidest comparison I've read on the OT in a long time.

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Not really.


I had a coworker who would bitch when she smelled onion during lunch.

Had another that claimed they were allergic to cologne and body spray and couldn’t be around it.


So yeah, smells bother all sorts of people.


Weed, onions, cologne, none of those smells bother me.

Ya'll weed heads just think you're better than us other addicts.

Imagine still writing hit pieces against the legalization of weed in the year 2025. fricking losers.

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legal cannabis would lead people to use fewer opioids...Yet recent reviews suggest that legalization is more likely to increase than reduce opioid-death rates

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that's such bullshite. Not once have I ever heard of that argument, at least from anyone reasonable.

This country has had an opioid issue for a while and there's nothing the legalization of weed was going to do to help that. That comes from years and years of doctors handing out pain meds like they were candy. Then, when these avenues started to dry up, people were left with few options. That's when you really saw the uptick in heroin use and now days fentanyl use. Not to mention the political issues and lack of border security from the last administration that made it much more easy for fentanyl to come across our borders.

TL;DR - if you're against legalizing weed in the year 2025, you're a fig.

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Ya'll weed heads just think you're better than us other addicts

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I'm sober. But I smoked for a long time out of choice and can start/ stop whenever the hell I want. That kinda kills your "addiction comment"

Can't say the same for alcohol, opioids, and hardcore drug users.

Furthermore if I stop the worse that happens is internal temperature regulating and maybe a day or two of being aggravated.

People on opioids, alcohol, hardcore drugs have actual withdrawals and their body legit will shut down. Or they just immediately become a threat to themselves/ others.

And yes I can assure you I'm better than alcoholics, anti depression lunes, and hardcore drug users. I also envy people that don't use ANY of those including sugar, caffeine, and nicotine. That's the only group that is truly "better than the rest".

But most of them are assholes who would rather judge and despise everyone else over helping them.

Cough* cough* the Catholic approach.

Sorry but doctors feeding drug-seeking behavior with chemically-engineered pain medication for the last 30-40 years is the reason we are in this situation. Not because someone wants to smoke a plant that grows naturally in the woods. They only thing I will say negative about THC is that it hampers productivity. If I smoked pot all the time in my late teens and late 20s, I wouldn't have been nearly as successful as I am now.

Today? I am enjoying the fruits of my labor.

No one has ever died from weed. No one. For that alone it should be legal. I can die from aspirin or liquor easily.

I think if you want to cut down on opiod overdose you make low level codine an over the counter drug.
Tylenol 3 should be over the counter. People will always over do pain killers. So have safe options there so they don't get street pills.

Do you expect truth and facts from a lib rag like the atlantic?
I've smoked weed for 50 of the 63 years I've been alive. I have never even once considered using opioids.