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No one who has data thinks it’s safer and I don’t think anyone on the political level really cares that much. Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politica
by andrei_says_ 7y ago
No one who has data thinks it’s safer and I don’t think anyone on the political level really cares that much. Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politically motivated and entangled with political image as well as a lot of funding for enforcement and incarceration.
Most likely we will move beyond its insanity but it’ll take time.
- repsilat 7y ago> Mj prohibition is ultimately racially and politically motivated On the other side of the equation, there's also the (much more charitable) point that we tried banning alcohol and it didn't work. It has a substantially larger cultural purchase, so banning it is naturally more expensive -- both in terms of the cost of enforcement and the number of upset people whose habits you've made illegal. Marijuana might become impossible to ban if its use keeps climbing, but it certainly wasn't in the 20th century.
- Gibbon1 7y agoMy old dad said they banned marijuana after prohibition to give the prohibition enforcement agents something to do.