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Which do you think will be the next country to legalize recreational cannabis? (lemmy.basedcount.com)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mexico is on its way! We have three candidates for our upcoming elections this summer. The two women candidates, Sheinbaum and Gálvez, have participated in public debates favoring lenient regularization, and Álvarez has spoken publicly about full legalization.

Claudia Sheinbaum is leading the race, so not only will we most likely get our first woman president, but legal weed as well!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

It better be Greenland or I'll be disappointed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

In a shocking turnabout, Atlantis announces legalized marijuanna and also their continued existence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The West has lost the 'war on drugs', whatever that means.

The only way out is to regulate (and therefore tax) them. Cannabis is the gateway drug (pun intended).

I'm old and tried something mild ish when I young. It didn't really do much for me so I never went down that path. I don't even drink more than a unit a fortnight, usually I'm driving and I only drink socially. Just don't fancy it much anymore.

As far as I'm concerned, the benefits of living today are mainly being funneled to an elite. Taxes were mostly levied on companies and have become taxes levied on the individual, with companies not really paying tax at all. People are struggling to hold it together. Drugs represent escapism pending some kind of revolution.

I'm one of 'Thatcher's children' - A Gen X watching young people today giving up. If you had told me last century that I would have written such a thing today, I would have punched you.

I believe that the move left of the politics of today represents the population asking for help.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Alkohol is the gateway drug. Socially accepted everywhere. It's normal as a recreational drug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They already tax alcohol everywhere as far as know. Maybe you're in the 'Mercan mountains and you're a moonshine master; but noting the instance and name probably not!

Hullo to Deutschland!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Whether they tax it or not doesn't change whether it's a gateway drug or not, which is all that comment seemed to be about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Germany legalised it last months so I would expect some of the neighbouring countries to follow suit soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Germany did not legalise. It got decriminalise to a very Limited extend.

E.g. the "Bundesgerichtshof" ruled a few days ago that 7.5 g of pure THC is a "nicht geringe Menge" which means 3 months Minimum. Which means that If you have 50 g of Hash with 40% THC you already have 20 g of pure THC. The CannG explicitly states that having 50 g of Hash at Home is legal. Lets See how that plays Out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

USA if Trump doesn't win.

France otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not a country, but the states in the US that don't have for-profit prisons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Im guessing the 22 states that have banned for-profit prisons overlaps heavily with the list of recreational weed states

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“What country do you think…”

obligatory not a country, but…

Why is this the thing every time in every thread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's an easier answer. The US is a country, but it seems to decide this not at the country level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Australia is on the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The Holy See.

Trust me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i cant wait to pay even more taxes :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From Canada, where legalization has happened, it's pretty much like nothing changed, except there are way more products on the market at way cheaper prices than before. Most people consume cannabis in their personal spaces, and there has been a ton of tax revenue, despite consumers paying about half of what I was paying before on the black market.

It's all-around a huge win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'll gladly pay 6% (the recreational-use tax here) to have access to whole array of products of varying strengths and methods of delivery. The ability to just walk into one of dozens of shops and purchase whatever flower/concentrates/edibles I want was an absolute game changer for me. The black market prices are super competitive but legal shops have so much more variety and you have a better idea of what you're getting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully none

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with a government deciding to regulate and tax a previously illegal substance that is less harmful than many legal drugs at the moment, thus reducing revenue streams for cartels and gangs along with getting more money that the government can use?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it's still harmful, and we should be making the drugs that are even more harmful illegal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Ok Nancy Reagan