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This largely misses the point about the War on Drugs. It wasn't a reaction to the nation's morality slipping, it was a concerted effort to imprison Black men. D
by GaryNumanVevo 6y ago
This largely misses the point about the War on Drugs. It wasn't a reaction to the nation's morality slipping, it was a concerted effort to imprison Black men. Drug use is highly tied to unemployment and lack of income, the drug epidemic largely arose from the decades of redlining and blue collar jobs shifting to the suburbs.
- mips_avatar 6y agoEvery drug gets banned different though. Alcohol prohibition was a cause championed by wives and family of alcoholics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Psychedelics were banned because they got linked with the counter-culture movement in the 60's. Even coffee got largely excluded from the middle east in medieval times because it was deemed against the quran's restrictions on intoxication.