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[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can’t wait for the epic memes promoting weed

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

zack morris told me theres no hope with dope right before he narced on a nice guy for responsibly doing weed in his own house and then drove drunk and lied about it to his dad though

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

🎶Zack Morris is trash🎶

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

im from the future.

it did not work out like they hoped

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

I believe you.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I believe you.

I want to believe you but I have a feeling it's a honey pot

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 65 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Beware the DEA kids. They knew about all the oxy all along. They knew about all the hydro. They knew every single major shipment going to Florida, Kentucky and wherever else this whole time. They knew about the opioid epidemic and they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago

Goddamned right, our government threw its own citizens under the bus so pharmaceutical companies could make another billion. Then imprisoned the people who got addicted.

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.

I don't have trouble believing this could be the case, but can you link some evidence?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So I'm out of the business now and quota guidelines have changed to a quarterly system (?) so i could be talking out my ass.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/31/2023-18885/management-of-quotas-for-controlled-substances-and-list-i-chemicals

Rubber stamped might be over stating but shipment reports from registered manufacturers are reported, audited and archived for a long time. Records of shipments are constantly monitored between the distribution centers. How much active ingredient was also explicitly decided by the DEA iirc. So if a manufacturer needed to increase it's output of a schedule 2 narcotic by a significant amount it must request the additional quota and it then goes through an approval process.

To go a step further and show just how significant quota is let me give you an example:

You have a shipment of product ready to go. Certificates of Exceptions/Assay/whatever paperwork you need to release. It's been transitioned to the distribution center. You then find something that impacts that material and it needs to come back to the manufacturing (gmp) area. Once that comes back into the facility and then leaves again it will count against your quota. If 100kg of active leaves twice it's 200kg as far as the DEA is concerned and you will have to destroy the left over 100kg you were provided and did not use.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago

Cannabis will never be as harmful as alcohol. This really outlines their intentions and how little they actually care about harm to children.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Next, these people are going to start going after heavy metal and rap music again.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Heavy Metal and Rap Music? They hurdled right over and landed on Any Amount of Dancing and Suffragettes.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

They're this close to warning that jazz causes integration

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 63 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Your casual lawbreaking will be used against you.

This is exactly what had me scared straight for the longest time. It's not the drug, it's the system that punishes use of the drug that's the real threat.

The fact that ex-convicts (people that have paid their debt to society) aren't a protected class in the hiring process is beyond me. At least insofar as non-violent offenses go, there's no cause to throw someone away like this. This goes especially considering the current state of political affairs around here.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

"Corrective Rape" as a trope within the American prison system is probably the darkest part of this cartoon.

I would like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs

[–] StayDoomed@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where are the DOGE bros for this government waste?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Nope sorry the best Trump can do is pardon a single drug dealer. The Libertarians must be thrilled at their art of the deal.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago
[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 34 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This seems perfectly reasonable. I'm sure the people wearing DARE shirts will take this seriously and help out.

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[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'd be flooding Instagram with pro-420 Day memes, if I had an account.

i dont even smoke weed but this anti 420 day is making me want to start tbh

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Refer Madness is a fun video to watch and only gets funner after you've smoked a bowl.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

All of those 1950 -1970s Public service announcement things are hilarious, they go so hardcore in their visuals, there's a British one about not touching electricity transformers or something like along those lines that goes hard.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 4 days ago

This reminded me about year 2000 or so when we seemingly did not have any (relatively) serious problems and so our tax money was spent on stuff like this

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you smoke enough marijuana you can hear all the complicated stuff drummer Jeff Porcaro isn't playing on the song Africa by Toto.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Warning: avoiding marijuana can lead to unnecessary stress.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Im gonna smoke weed even harder.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Wake up babe, Reefer Madness 2 is about to drop

[–] Bot@sub.community 1 points 4 days ago

Hi crackheads :)

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