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good point. So lets... throw people in jail? I'd say prohibition has destroyed our society. The onus should be on prohibitionists to defend the status quo.
by wonder_er 10y ago
good point. So lets... throw people in jail?
I'd say prohibition has destroyed our society. The onus should be on prohibitionists to defend the status quo.
- IMTDb 10y agoI don't remember writing anything about jail. Legalisation and penalisation are two very different issues.
- icebraining 10y agoWhile I'm pro-legalization of cannabis, this is a fair point. Portugal's drug policy is widely lauded, yet we only decriminalized consumption; even pot is still illegal, and being caught selling is a crime.
- mhneu 10y agoA Nixon administration official has claimed the War On Drugs was conceived by Nixon's White House to persecute Nixon's politial opponents-- blacks and liberals. --- The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."