What if the Feds treated caffeine the way they treat marijuana?

[tenderfoot]

Link to tweet

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. There may be more "reality" to this tweet than first meets the eye.

Cannabis effects are similar in the intensity of the alteration of physical and mental functioning. I'd guess that cannabis is slightly more intense, but folks are quite able to function in a way that alcohol doesn't permit.

What Sessions is all flustered about is beyond the comprehension of normal human beings who have experience with cannabis and other kinds of psychotropic substances.

[NCTraveler]

2. It would elevate the war on drugs to a more ignorant level.

Not sure I get this.

[Calculating]

3. Sad but true

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Like they did to alcohol?

Portugal proves prohibition doesn't work. Overdose deaths decreased 80% in twelve years after they decriminalized drugs

https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin

[marybourg]

5. This is juvenile. nt

[NutmegYankee]

7. No more juvenile than drug prohibition is today.

The video is silly because drug prohibition is silly. A plant cultivated for thousands of years by humanity and grown by President and Founder George Washington now justifies boys with toys to kick down doors and shoot innocent people? And we actually try to call ourselves the "land of the free" with a straight face...

[malaise]

6. I'd be dead or in prison

That simple