Elton John Says Legalizing Marijuana in America and Canada Is “One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time”
Elton John Says Legalizing Marijuana in America and Canada Is “One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time”
"I maintain that it’s addictive," he said. "It leads to other drugs."
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It can be addictive. It can lead to other drugs. Neither of which means it needs to be illegal.
If we want to worry about addicts, maybe we should worry about all of the sugar addicts, considering obesity is a much bigger problem when it comes to all sorts of things in society, especially our healthcare system.
Sugar, ultraprocessed food, shopping/overconsumption, porn, gambling. Lots of normal things condoned by our society can be addictive for a segment of the population.
Right, but detracting from the point isn't very productive. Weed does have the opportunity to be addicting. Now that the world is leading towards more open use of it, hopefully we can do more research and better understand how things work.
This is honestly one of the saddest parts about all of this. 80+ years of scientific research that we could have been doing. All of the treatments and medicines that we'd likely have...
Every single time we learn something new and positive about a chemical in cannabis, I can't help but think that we should have known this shit for decades...
Yeah its really stupid. Also on kinda the same point i wish hemp was used more widely.
Absolutely, do the research. But don't pretend like this is the big addiction problem that must be solved.
no i never said anything like that. there is other drugs that have that issue like opioids
I know you didn't, but that's essentially what Elton John is saying.
elton john can walk down the yellow brick road
The sugar problem is wild. And I'll admit iv beens in it's clutches a lot longer than weed. Also I'm still happy with weed, and while I am trying to cut back on the sugars wholly shit it's so much harder than weed. Or booze, which I also enjoy and struggle with.
Lead to other drugs, no.