<story><title>U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-release-discussion-draft-federally-legalize-cannabis-2021-07-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;He added that marijuana use needs more research.&lt;p&gt;I wish that we had this same attitude towards chemicals sprayed on crops where it seems to be everything is fine until proven to be harmful. Yet with weed it is harmful until proven safe. Also, I suspect there is plenty of research on the safety of weed&lt;p&gt;edit: to all of those arguing that there may be&amp;#x2F; are dangers to weed, I don&amp;#x27;t disagree. How about the fact that I can choose to not ingest weed, I have to eat and it is quite difficult to find disclosures about chemicals sprayed on the food available, and many of these chemical have been researched far less then weed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jolux</author><text>As someone who is extremely pro-legalization (and pro-decriminalization of all drugs) I still think this is perfectly reasonable. We know rough bounds on the safety of cannabis&amp;#x2F;THC (probably safer than tobacco and alcohol, probably not a good idea if you have a family history of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, or if you’re very young) but we don’t really know in depth what the long-term effects are like, for different doses, different age groups, different comorbidities, etc. The government more or less forbid researching this subject for a long time, and the environment is still relatively hostile to it. The research is young.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. Senate Democrats roll out draft bill to legalize weed</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-release-discussion-draft-federally-legalize-cannabis-2021-07-14/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frankbreetz</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;He added that marijuana use needs more research.&lt;p&gt;I wish that we had this same attitude towards chemicals sprayed on crops where it seems to be everything is fine until proven to be harmful. Yet with weed it is harmful until proven safe. Also, I suspect there is plenty of research on the safety of weed&lt;p&gt;edit: to all of those arguing that there may be&amp;#x2F; are dangers to weed, I don&amp;#x27;t disagree. How about the fact that I can choose to not ingest weed, I have to eat and it is quite difficult to find disclosures about chemicals sprayed on the food available, and many of these chemical have been researched far less then weed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehjoker</author><text>This is a common tactic to simply delay an unwanted bill without providing a substantive reason why. Nothing further should be read into it.</text></comment>