
Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law
A Point of View
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The Importance of Intoxication in the 21st Century
There isn't a society in the world that doesn't use drugs of some kind. In order for it to be truly constructive, it needs to be undertaken in multi generational contexts where intoxication can be effectively integrated with positive values of comity and mutual support. I would argue that the criminalization of maraana use is a major factor in rendering this difficult. For decades now, different generations of britons have taken different drugs, leading to mutual comprehension and antipathy. Is it any surprise that a newly legalized intoxicant that can be delivered in many different ways, smoked, vaped, eaten, drunk, would hybridize with an aggressively consumeris form of capitalism? The commercialized
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