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Sonja's avatar

I’m against total drug legalization!

The opioid crisis decimated working class people (something it seems laptop-class, San Franciscan Nellie Bowles has been left untouched by, fortunately.) And it’s still going, unchecked by litigation or legislation.

We’re still at the start of finding out the long term effects of high powered cannabis will be, especially on young people.

We have no addiction recovery or mental health infrastructure, especially when it comes to affordable care that would be accessible to those who will inevitably need it most - working class people.

There is already zero traffic enforcement in cities - and you want to add more impaired drivers to the roads?

Deaths of despair are at all time highs, and you want to give people *more* options to become addicted?

Cartels are taking advantage of our effectively open southern border, and you want to take away the main crime that cops will arrest them for?

I was against the war on drugs and pro-marijuana legalization, but marijuana quickly morphed into something unrecognizable, rapidly engineered to strengths that I’m sure will be proven dangerous in time. My friends, family, hometown have been ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Average Americans need a break. We need to get a handle on addiction and mental health and THEN we can talk about opening the floodgates.

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Maggie's avatar

Hear! Hear!

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