This is kind of a tangent, not so great point, but I listen to Dan Carlin who is a pop-style historian who isn't really credentialed but manages to tell history

This is kind of a tangent, not so great point, but I listen to Dan Carlin who is a pop-style historian who isn't really credentialed but manages to tell history in a fun way. One of his episodes involves a medieval Germany who has outlawed a ton of things and has tortured people hanging high in the sky off a massive church. One of his points in the episode is that if you end up making too many things illegal, people just stop caring and continue to do the illegal thing. Makes me wonder if my country's heavy handed approached just ended up making people more curious and now cannabis is very popular.