u/thorhop — Big Baby Thor

True enough, but as we see with neo liberals in the UK, France, Germany, France, the US and the Nordics, it's easy to sell the country - under the guise of international investment, as a precept by the world bank. You're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

That's pretty neat. All good things.

A centrist is just another goddamn neo-liberal... I think, though he did run as an *independent*?! Daring today, aren't we sir?

But yeah, better him than... the "alternative". It's not nice to have someone who cleans Tzar boots with his tounge as president.

Why are you people so bad at reading, or are you just trying to misdirect?

You either missed the point entirely - or you're trying to ignore it. But that's why we use simple language and conveyance to dismiss such tomfoolery.

Pure ethanol... right? Pure ethanol is illegal to sell as a beverage. With me so far? But ethanol... is the effective ingredient in alcohol. Understood? Good.

You keeping a bottle and drinking it... is not the same as distributing it as a beverage in say a store, a bar, your grandma's house, etc.. Yes? We can't make it illegal for you - that's you in your private home - to destroy your body by drinking it yourself. Agreed?

But... if you then... go give that bottle to someone without informing them "hey bro, this is pure ethanol - this shit'll burn your cornia", and by neglecting to do so, they go blind when drinking it? That's what we call **wilful negligence** - in legal speak.

If you do that, then you deserve time in prison for wilful negligence and causing bodily harm to someone. Right?

Or... are you some sort of psychopath? Or perhaps a libertarian? I'm a socialist libertarian, so let me know if you need to learn something about why law is still important and why causing harm to others - _be it intentional or not_ - should be illegal. Here's a hint: we still need licenses for running major industrial machinery for a reason.

Allow me to hit back. No. But by that token pure ethanol that can make you go blind should also be sold over the counter, right?

It sort of is a "nanny state"... or a welfare state. In any case, its to prevent deaths caused by dehydration. 60 is allowed, but everything upwards is not.

It's really bad if the wrong person gets a hold of it too. Suddenly latent psychosis gets triggered - which could have been healed by itself over the years, but instead destroys a life that then will become a burden to their family and the welfare system. It's also what could lead us right back to criminalization.

Most of the irresponsible stoners in this thread don't get that, because that care only about themselves, but as a civilized society we can't just let that stuff run rampant.

Grow... it... yourself... but do not distribute WITHOUT... informing... of THC content...

Got that, cookie? Does it enter into your skull? Do you understand why? Of course not.

Do you ignore the article because it doesn't suit your agenda? Yes. Are you a licensed neurologist? No. Are you a licensed therapist? No. Do you understand why it's a problem? No. Do you care? No. Are you a selfish little goblin? Yes...

They could grow it themselves and not distribute it without telling people what it contained...

This is why high grade is bad, because it impedes ones reading retention - apparently.

Not if it's 60 proof - not in my country anyway. Then you'd go to jail - and I'd say the same should be for high grade.

My case is still - if you bothered to read - that high grade should remain illegal, but that low to mid grade should be legalized.

Why bother using words? Maybe I should just smash my face on my phone. Seems to be working for you guys.

...can you read? I wasn't talking about dispensaries. I was talking about home grown high grade - but also: high grade in general would be illegal in my country based on how we already regulate other drugs.

Not that you give AF about your countrymens well being, which we know you don't when you intimate that you would actively grow skunk and distribute to people _without_ warning people about the THC content - because you're an absolute irresponsible sociopath.

Or, you can't read.

Which one is it?

It's not opinion, you irresponsible doofus, but verifiable fact at this point - hence the article.

You can't prevent people from growing it themselves at home no, but selling high grade over the counter? Heeeell no. Not in my country.

That would get cannabis super banned almost instantly after legalization, which would be dumb, counter productive - and irresponsible.

And if you went around distributing it without _clearly_ informing of it's THC/CBD ratio and the implications thereof?

Straight to jail - because it could be a costly, irresponsible form of stupid, that could cause harm to someone else and lasting damage to them - all because "that shit be hype"?

One year in prison. Same as when selling ethanol. No exceptions.

"One hit shit". You mean noisy, loud, tweak head shit. Why not skip a step and go straight to meth? Maybe synthesize a concentrate you can inject straight into your groin even. Call it groinnabis. Smh.

Listen, I tell my countrymen all the time: we want to legalize, but only "low grade* to "mid grade". I.e not high grade. We're kind of strict though, almost dry state. Why?

Skunk and the likes have been bred to maximize THC content at the cost of the CBD content. The problem there being that THC is _psychoactive_ and in strong amounts can even be sort of psychedelic, whereas CBD is an _antipsychotic_ that counteracts the negative effecta THC has.

The bigger nut though - and this is the frustrating part - THC can never actually cause psychosis, but can bring out latent psychotic tendencies or be part and parcel of bringing onset psychosis - but a drunken stooper or even an intense run could do that too.

When it comes to high grade tho: _do not fuck around with it_. If you've never tried cannabis, make sure you don't get a skunk type strain or anything that is deemed "heavy". It's not necessary anyway, it's just a stupid trend between bros to try to out stone or out high each other. "Ooo, I'm the most high! ha ha ha ha"

It's been an arms race between breeder for decades now regarding maximizing THC content, but let me just say gtfo here with that noise. Give me a working man's spliff any day, thank you very much. We're supposed to function as well.

Look at those evil immigrants. No doubt they'll... they'll... hold on, can we use some AI to replace the stock photo with brown people? Thank you.

The #pope? ⛪

He ded... ☠️

Amen. 🙏