Legalize it, man!

[Raincloud Man]

Something I noticed rather quickly is how insanely good the "Recreational use" bill is. It sounds quite bad in the description, with its "Slight reduction" on crime and an increase in police spendings, but this one change has actually allowed me to run my city with maybe half the police stations I'd otherwise need, now when I build a new district and look at the crime map, everything is usually blue, even with zero police stations.

If only the free fire alarm bill was as good... =p

One can only assume this is a deliberate jab at #warondrugs

[Apocalypse_Later]

-Legalize recreational use
-Ban smoking of any kind the next day

huehuehuehuehue

[Excrucian]

lol

[Sol]

Originally posted by Apocalypse_Later:

-Legalize recreational use
-Ban smoking of any kind the next day

huehuehuehuehue

Republican Fantasy. Now you have legal heroin and cocaine but still no marijuana.

[leftbehind]

Can't allow the weed, too many health benefits would harm big pharma profits. Isn't it the US government who owns the patent on cannabinoids cancer cure?

[Melfice]

Originally posted by aubergine18:

Can't allow the weed, too many health benefits would harm big pharma profits. Isn't it the US government who owns the patent on cannabinoids cancer cure?

There are a million patents on quack "cures".
Doesn't necessarily mean they actually cure anything. Patent US5676977 comes to mind.

[leftbehind]

There are growing number of confirmed medical trials and studies confirming cannabinoids have dramatic success rate against cancer and a whole host of other things. After my mum died of cancer I started researching it and found about 30 reliable cures and up to 300 other medications that have significant impact against certain types of cancer. I guess when you're up against a $30B/year industry a viable cure/treatment has to be kept away from the public at all costs, it would literally impact the global economy.

[Melfice]

Fair enough. I haven't done the research.
I'm just saying... don't look too closely at patents, and who owns them. You'll end up deeper in conspiracies than a conspiracy nutter.

[leftbehind]

The patent trail for cannabinoids is an interesting one as you can trace it back through multiple other patents going back as far as 1940's. ;) It's been "rediscovered" dozens of times all round the world, and each time it gets brushed under the carpet.

In some respects, I can see why: The last thing this planet needs is longer-living humans. But mainly it's to protect profits of big pharma, or the "illness preservation industry" as I call it.

[Jarl Bread Maker]

Originally posted by aubergine18:

The patent trail for cannabinoids is an interesting one as you can trace it back through multiple other patents going back as far as 1940's. ;) It's been "rediscovered" dozens of times all round the world, and each time it gets brushed under the carpet.

In some respects, I can see why: The last thing this planet needs is longer-living humans. But mainly it's to protect profits of big pharma, or the "illness preservation industry" as I call it.

And this has to do with the game Cities Skylines?

[Raincloud Man]

Originally posted by Bread Maker:

Originally posted by aubergine18:

The patent trail for cannabinoids is an interesting one as you can trace it back through multiple other patents going back as far as 1940's. ;) It's been "rediscovered" dozens of times all round the world, and each time it gets brushed under the carpet.

In some respects, I can see why: The last thing this planet needs is longer-living humans. But mainly it's to protect profits of big pharma, or the "illness preservation industry" as I call it.

And this has to do with the game Cities Skylines?

I'm not disagreeing with him, but I was honestly just mostly interested if anyone thought it was balanced or not in game 0.o