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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
The morality of consuming marijuana is proportional to its legality though.
I will say that it's highly immoral to consume marijuana of unknown source, or sourced from a drug cartel that assassinates people that get in their way of delivering marihuana to you.
But if the source of marijuana is just some tax paying dude that grows marijuana legally like you would any other crop, I don't see any moral issue.
At most you could argue "the resources to grow it could be spent on food", but that is true for literally every form of entertainment. And "but it is unhealthy, and then we all have to pay for your poor health choices", which is actually fair. But way more moral than the drug-cartel sourced one.
For alcohol is different though, since it directly causes antisocial behavior on the consumer. Consuming alcohol is as immoral as whatever immoral acts you do while drunk.
I don't think that was the reality of pre-legal weed, at least not much, at least here on the west coast. Most people i knew bought directly from harmless small scale operations or from someone who did. A lot of people worked chopping during harvest and got paid in weed.
Also i think large scale legal farms are much shadier and many have more connections to organized crime than you're considering.
Even if you the operators don't assassinate anyone, running illegal businesses will 99% of the time have other immoral side-effects. It's hard to keep an illegal business running while being 100% morally right.
If a farm has connections to organized crime, it's not growing it like any other crop.
I know people that grow normal crops, none of them have connections to organized crime.