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Is a war on drugs a good response? Hyper-aggressive policing? Lock up even minor participants for decades? Consider why people thought that was a good response
by hackuser 10y ago
Is a war on drugs a good response? Hyper-aggressive policing? Lock up even minor participants for decades?
Consider why people thought that was a good response when drugs struck other communities.
- wutbrodo 10y agoThis is hardly news: the same dynamic played out in a different chronological order between alcohol and marijuana prohibition. Alcohol was so ubiquitous that Prohibition turned all of society (including "decent" people) into criminals, so the response was that it's clearly an unworkable solution; we can't lock up _everybody_. It's only simplifying a bit to say that marijuana shared much the same ubiquity in certain _other_ communities, so the response was.....let's just lock up everybody.