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>I can't even begin to believe how&why we let things like this happen. $$$.
by craftyguy 8y ago
>I can't even begin to believe how&why we let things like this happen.
$$$.
- sizzle 8y agoCBD and THC can easily be monetized for profit so what's the issue?
- acct1771 8y agoCompetition, as in, ease of home drug creation.
- SerLava 8y agoThe issue was that we wanted a new loophole for the 13th amendment. We also really wanted to permanently "deport" Americans who had brown skin. There's a lot of money in that.
- simplecomplex 8y agoDon’t know why you’re downvoted, since the Controlled Substances Act was meant to disrupt African American and leftist political efforts, according to Nixon’s domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman. They couldn’t raid black panther meetings for legally possessing guns, but they could for smoking joints and selling drugs. "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.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/03/23/poli...
- denkmoon 8y agoWe haven't left the 1920's in terms of using drug law to "clean up" "undesirables".
- 8note 8y agowasn't this 70s drug law to prevent people from voting agaisnt Nixon? those people would still vote against Trump, so they shouldn't be allowed to