Comment on Legalising cannabis increases use and addiction, unless it's tightly controlled.
etherphon@piefed.social 22 hours ago
profit-driven legalisation increases use and harms
Of course, there’s all sorts of different extracts now, stuff nearing 90% THC levels for some of the concentrates, a lot of edible products that are not labeled well or in bad packaging, or that people use far too much of the first time. I don’t think you can blame any of those things directly on the cannabis personally.
rollin@piefed.social 21 hours ago
The phenomenon they’ve identified doesn’t seem to be cannabis-specific at all. The finding really seems to be, “capitalism will pursue profits at the expense of customers’ well-being”.
Which isn’t going to be news to anyone but the most deluded libertarian. It’s a great example of why we absolutely need government to impose sensible regulations on business, because otherwise short-term profiteering will win over long-term societal good.
Cannabis, as it moves from illegal black markets to legitimacy, is just in an interesting position to highlight these kinds of effects.