>>13820447Comparing weed to opium is retarded. Even at their basic chemical effective levels they're not even apples/oranges they're apples/onions.
>about to get a whole lot worseNewsflash: it already "got a whole lot worse" years ago when major corporate pharmas started handing out opium like candy leading to what is known in the US as the "opioid crisis." Killed millions in shit hole Red States, but that's usually what it takes to stop corporate greed unless it's firearms.
US States legalized weed because they finally learned the history of why it was banned in the first place (hemp is an easy competitor to lumber), that cops, courts and prisons were filled with non-violent weed criminals (wasting taxpayer money) and that it's a BIG MONEY MAKER on taxation. A dime bag is like $40 now but you don't have to care about cops and bullshit.