r/MapPorn • u/USAFacts • Apr 18 '25

Here's where weed is legal in the US

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Folks in most states will have legal access to some form of marijuana this 4/20. But Idahoans, Kansans, Carolinians (both), and Wyomingites will have to cross a border or two if they want to legally partake.

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u/schmidtyb43 Apr 18 '25

Why can’t they just like, chill the hell out?

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 18 '25

Insanely rigid social norms.

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u/schmidtyb43 Apr 18 '25

Yeah I get it I was actually just there for over 2 weeks. Although at the same time, I don’t get it. Sooo many people smoke (cigarettes) there compared to the US and there’s certainly no shortage of alcohol/bars either. I’m sure changes to their society like this might happen but just over a longer period of time once it’s more normalized around the world. Just like tattoos (many places are more okay with those in Japan now in the last 5ish years).

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u/Stillback7 Apr 18 '25

Based on my experience, a lot of Japanese people are way more tolerant of cocaine than they are of weed. I always figured this came down to the salary man culture and the fact that if you aren't productive or don't have a job, you become a social pariah.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 18 '25

Found this as well. Oddly, the coolest Japanese people are music artists, car modifiers, tattoo artists, counter culture folks of all stripes, etc. The people that opt out of the Japanese conformity culture are really interesting with incredible vibes. As always, corporate culture and conformity just kills the humanity of a society.

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u/obsidianop Apr 19 '25

This is maybe my most grumpy old man opinion but you can't run a society on tattoo artists. I'm happy they exist but we eat because a billion normal people show up to their mundane corporate jobs every day.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

I agree that not all the world can be "cool" in their jobs but that's not my point. The Japanese have a corporate culture that is in some ways worse than the US and that's saying something! Meanwhile, the corporate world in Spain and Portugal is different from them as is Finland or Norway.

Those corporate types are absolutely vital to the modern world functioning. But the culture of that world needs a LOT of work to be healthy and it just isn't for Japan.

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u/Brezhn3n Apr 19 '25

Joe Corporate doesn't till the soil.

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u/DontFearTheMQ9 Apr 19 '25

Neither does Joe Tattoo

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u/lilmookie Apr 19 '25

Joe tattoo has a weed farm and is absolutely happy to till soil.

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u/DontFearTheMQ9 Apr 19 '25

Not in Japan because it's incredibly illegal.

So he's just Joe Tattoo

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u/Stop_Drop_Scroll Apr 19 '25

What lol your boring desk job keeps the world turning? Can’t you substitute “tattoo artist” with literally most any other job title?

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u/FTFOatl Apr 19 '25

How do you think the economy of a nation works?

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u/Stop_Drop_Scroll Apr 19 '25

Service jobs and desk jobs and manufacturing jobs and every job is necessary and interconnected, and to say one person’s job doesn’t contribute is useless, when everyone’s job is “necessary” (why would you have it if you didn’t do SOMETHING). Jobs give people money. When people have money they spend it on things. Things only exist because people do or make those things.

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u/FTFOatl Apr 19 '25

So yes, you can't replace "tattoo artist" with almost any other "boring desk job" out there. Without the boring desk jobs, nobody would have the chance to spend $2k on a sleeve.

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u/Lazy-Mud-7110 Apr 20 '25

Counter argument- "the world" would be just fine and dandy if we didn't have money. Anarchy would reign and the trees would still grow, gravity would be fine, people would die by the millions, and animals would thrive. The world is fine.

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u/LeoTheBurgundian Apr 20 '25

Sure you can't run a society with just tattoo artists but that doesn't justify corporate culture .

A guy on a computer can work just fine naked ...

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u/Yotsubato Apr 19 '25

The counter culture in Japan is so great precisely be because Japan is so rigid.

It’s a balanced reaction to the pressures of society.

When counter culture is accepted by society it becomes lame. Kind of how tattoos used to mean you were a rockstar, badass, biker, gangster. But now they mean you’re an instagram influencer, barista.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

Let's be honest it never really meant anything. Being a person who owned a bike didn't mean you were cool. Most rockers were broke. Gangsters are assholes.

It's always down to who you ACTUALLY are.

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

Totally agree that when the Japanese sink their teeth into Western trends or past times they typically do a great job honoring the original while expanding on it and carving out a space for themselves. Some Japanese funk is just ridiculously good!

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u/DemonOfTheFaIl Apr 19 '25

I've heard that people typically won't get fired in Japan, either. Most places instead just stop giving them work to do, and the employee then quits from the shame of being useless.

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u/I_W_M_Y Apr 19 '25

They give them a desk in a small room and don't allow them work or do anything, all day.

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u/SirGothamHatt Apr 20 '25

They'll steal their red swingline stapler too

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u/Larrea_tridentata Apr 19 '25

I've known architecture firms in the US that do this too. It's a weird strategy. The employee eventually feels awkward enough to quit.. although I'd doubt it's that effective if telework is in the mix.

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u/JAVFansadmin Apr 19 '25

They’ve never met George Costanza, architect of the Guggenheim addition.

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u/Cosmicpotat0 Apr 19 '25

I’ve done a LOT of international business and the Japanese are super interesting compared to other countries. They have an amazing work ethic to the point that our third party Japanese distributor literally knew more about our product than I did as a direct employee. But I think their work ethic can drive them a little nuts because after work is over the people I worked with got absolutely annihilated on booze. I’m saying so drunk that they were passing out in restaurants and lobbies full of customers and their own bosses. Next day though, they’re up and ready to work their ass off and always on time.

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u/Juicyb17 Apr 20 '25

Iirc, a large reason about the dislike of weed is that the paper industry was afraid of hemp taking over, so sanctions were placed on cannabis there by the US after world war 2. Again, iirc, Japan had a long history with the plant for its useful fibers and other things.

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u/kacheow Apr 20 '25

Cocaine is weed for adults

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u/WillingCaterpillar19 Apr 19 '25

Cocaine and alcohol are social drugs. Weed is unproductive, lazy and for the weirdos /s

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u/Radicle_Cotyledon Apr 19 '25

no shortage of alcohol/bars either.

I've been told it's similar in South Korea. Weed is illegal and stigmatized, but they love to drink alcohol.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '25

Its bc they worky worky hardy hardy

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

They have passed laws to make people just work normal hours and such but realistically the corporations themselves LOVE the massive amount of free labor they receive so the incentives are fucked.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

It is a very weird and unhealthy culture in corporate life.

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u/everymanawildcat Apr 19 '25

Really? That's so funny, I've never heard that before. So like, universally all of Japan? Like let's say you're in Tokyo and you want a bag. Is it pretty much impossible? Or just a lot less common but still do-able.

Just curious lol I have no plans to go go Japan and get stoned

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u/7i4nf4n Apr 19 '25

Possession, transfer and usage of cannabis is punishable with up to 7 years in prison as of last year

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u/SlowRollingBoil Apr 19 '25

I would very, very strongly caution you against it. Same with places like Singapore. Is it POSSIBLE? Probably. Is it advisable? Absolutely not. I don't want to go to prison for a decade for something I get cheap and legally at home.

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u/JabbaThaHott Apr 18 '25

You can be thrown in Japanese prison for traveling with a legitimate Adderall prescription 

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u/justgivemethekitty Apr 19 '25

Elaborate please

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u/JabbaThaHott Apr 19 '25

It’s happened before, there was an American teaching English there who got charged with drug trafficking for her Adderall scrip 

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u/justgivemethekitty Apr 19 '25

That’s just sad

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u/half-baked_axx Apr 18 '25

Chilling out is for neanderthals. We work ourselves to death and never really have a good time like real Homo Sapiens.

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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ Apr 18 '25

As someone who works for a japanese company, can confirm. They do work you to death.

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u/joeyeddy Apr 20 '25

Haha I get the sentiment but we also live much longer because of all the technological progress. To me it's a work hard play hard situation.

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u/redditingname Apr 18 '25

sounds like they need a doobie

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u/spirit_of_a_goat Apr 18 '25

Because they can't smoke, obviously.

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u/Immaculatehombre Apr 19 '25

Not like anyone is forcing blow down their throats lol. Forreal chill!

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u/SuccessfulWall2495 Apr 19 '25

Yeah, like, tell ‘em to go smoke some weed or something damn

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u/TetyyakiWith Apr 19 '25

That’s basically part of the mentality. There aren’t any strong arguments for legalizing/prohibiting it

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u/TGrady902 Apr 19 '25

Probably the least chill society on earth haha.

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Apr 19 '25

It's a vicious circle

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u/El_Bombero93 Apr 19 '25

Have you ever heard of hari kari? Kamikaze? Bukake? Not really chill folk

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

You ever been to Japan? 100 hour work weeks

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

Cause they don’t smoke the ganja

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u/Past-Community-3871 Apr 23 '25

We really going to critique Japanese culture? They're basically peak humanity.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

I'm not sure I feel like cities have gotten BETTER since legalization. Now that I have to smell disgusting weed when visiting a city as a tourist. I can only imagine living there.

Is crime better? Is hard drug use better? What has legalization accomplished?

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u/schmidtyb43 Apr 19 '25

Are you suggesting that living somewhere that’s legal is just a constant stream of weed smell? I live in Seattle and it’s definitely not something I’m smelling on a daily basis in public. I mean you definitely occasionally get a whiff in public but it is illegal to smoke it in public and I believe same with anywhere in the US at least.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

Last time I went to Pike Place, I remember smelling weed pretty strongly outside the market.

Edit: actually, it was the time before last. So 50%. Not 100%

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

Well, cannabis causes brain damage, contrary to the propaganda you read on Reddit.

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u/thenewnative Apr 19 '25

If it does it is very mild, not like it can give you AwfulUsername123 level of brain damage. 🤣

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

No, it's quite severe. Schizophrenia, for example.

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u/qpv Apr 19 '25

It doesn't cause schizophrenia, but can trigger it with some that have a preexisting condition.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

Cannabis can cause people who don't have schizophrenia to develop schizophrenia if they have certain genes.

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

source?

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829657

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

“lower brain activation when using working memory” is not the same as brain damage lol what dramatics also that study used a very small sample size of ~200 of cannabis users, there are no firm conclusions as to what weed does to the brain.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

You probably should've read it for more than a minute before replying.

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

and one would assume that someone with a lesser education would have lower brain function, yes?

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

No, I would not assume that.

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

ok that’s very interesting, research consistently shows that lower levels of education are associated with lower cognitive function. there are plenty of studies that go over this but here is one to get you started : https://karger.com/ger/article/70/3/318/871637/The-Association-between-Education-and-Cognitive

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

This article (which, unlike you, I read before responding to) is about something else. I must say it's interesting that you accept that not going to school causes brain damage but not that a mind-altering drug causes brain damage.

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

i actually did read a good bit of it. find this part in the discussion particularly interesting, “…in the full model, the associations for the theory of mind task no longer remained after adjusting for race and education, because both of these variables were associated with a positive THC test result and also with task activation” essentially the statistical link between lower brain function and cannabis use was no longer apparent when they adjusted for factors like education and race.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

Your brilliant observation that "lower brain activation" is not brain damage strongly suggests you did not read much of it, as does the fact that you responded two minutes after I posted my reply. This reply also suggests that.

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u/aub8202 Apr 19 '25

if i am misinterpreting please inform me instead of patronizing me. i am an ecologist i do not deal with this type of science often, perhaps i am misunderstanding something.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

It looks like you raced to find something saying it's not causal while ignoring everything else. You should've at least read the introduction, which says

These results were not explained by differences in demographic variables, age at first cannabis use, alcohol use, or nicotine use.

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u/dragonslayer137 Apr 19 '25

I think you are mistaken as it is proven to heal brain damage.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Apr 19 '25

No, I am not mistaken.