<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>Obviously this isn&amp;#x27;t legalisation. But as more and more countries&amp;#x2F;states legalise recreational marijuana, hopefully politicians will see the light and see that there&amp;#x27;s little demonstrable harm in legalisation, and that legalisation results in far more benefit than harm.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is unlikely. At least in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Politicians aren&amp;#x27;t opposed to drug law reform on the basis of safety, they might say they are, but in reality they&amp;#x27;re opposed to drug law reform because they believe that drug use is a moral sin. There are a significant number of politicians (in particular the religious ones), who believe that it&amp;#x27;s a sin to alter your mind, whether it be by alcohol, marijuana, mushrooms, MDMA, etc. etc. And they believe that it&amp;#x27;s their God-given duty to stop people from committing these sins.&lt;p&gt;The sad thing is that there are a lot of people in society who agree with them, hence they keep getting voted in. Just look at the comments on Facebook on any news story about somebody dying at a festival from drug overdoses, and there will be a slew of people literally saying that they deserved it for taking drugs in the first place.&lt;p&gt;And in Australia, I can&amp;#x27;t help but think that some politicians are using the war on drugs as a weapon in a fight against alternative culture. In Sydney, they have drug dogs at train stations, in particular in the Western Suburbs (the poorer, more ethnic side of the city), despite the fact that drug use is constant through the socioeconomic scale. Run a sniffer dog through the investment bankers&amp;#x27; offices and see how much coke they&amp;#x27;ll pick up. They&amp;#x27;ll also use sniffer dogs at music festivals (especially non-mainstream events, like techno festivals), but they won&amp;#x27;t deploy them for the horse races, despite the fact that drug use is rampant at both.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico&apos;s Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use</title><url>https://aztecreports.com/marijuana-ban-unconstitutional</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>suby</author><text>A step in the right direction, but it&amp;#x27;s not quite there yet.  From the article&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It would still require individuals to bring their cases before the Supreme Court before the judges can rule whether their case is constitutional, which is still a little different to having the absolute freedom to consume marijuana across the country.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also non-commercial use, which makes me think that the situation would be akin to Washington D.C. where it&amp;#x27;s legal to consume it, but not to sell it.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Mexico&apos;s Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing recreational marijuana use</title><url>https://aztecreports.com/marijuana-ban-unconstitutional</url></story>