Should marijuana be rated General or Sensitive?

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Creating a separate topic for this to avoid clogging up the Ratings thread.

Howto:rate states that legal drug use falls under General while hard and illegal drug use falls under Sensitive. Marijuana seems to fall somewhere in the middle since it's legal in some areas but not others. For example, in the United States, it's still illegal on a federal level, but multiple states have legalized or at least decriminalized it, and the federal government is apparently fairly lax when it comes to enforcing federal laws pertaining to marijuana in those states. I mention the U.S. specifically because I'm pretty sure we're still trying to secure a payment processor and need to try to stay on their good side, and I wouldn't expect them to approve of depictions of marijuana use even if it's becoming increasingly more legal.

I wouldn't be surprised if marijuana becomes fully legalized in the U.S. in the next few years and makes this entire topic moot, but I want to focus on the present. Given the current legal status of marijuana, should we rate images showing its use as G or S? How should we treat images that only show the leaf? Should we take into account whether someone looks stoned or not?

Finally, even if these all qualify for G, should we start filtering marijuana and related tags on donmai.moe? I checked and they're still searchable (so is cocaine for that matter).

Personally I think its more about what is generally socially acceptable across most cultures. Going to the bar with your coworkers is acceptable in the west and the east, only unacceptable in the mid east really.

Doing blunts with your coworkers is not acceptable in normal social settings in any country on earth

zetsubousensei said:

Personally I wouldn't want any of the images where a characters eyes turn red or are "high" to show up as rating G (post #5817914) but if it's just the plant (post #7762783) or no mind-altering effects are shown (post #5789402) then I wouldn't mind seeing it in a G search.

I think I agree, but that does pose the question as to how similar this is to drunk. I get where you're coming from, but maybe it should just be something tagged + blacklistable, since it's not that unlike drunk?

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