Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?
stoly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They wanted an excuse to lock up people of color and disrupt communities. With the civil rights act, they couldn’t go old school. So they invented the “war” on drugs specifically because blacks and Latinos were stereotyped as being cannabis smokers. This is all about racism.
viking@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Not everything in the world revolves around the US…
Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Sure but this does
viking@infosec.pub 11 months ago
How do you know where the OP is located? Alcohol is legal in most countries, and cannabis is illegal in most. This question applies almost anywhere in the world.
IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And the US has exported marijuana prohibition all over the globe.
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In this case it is. Cannabis laws globally were influenced, often coerced by the U.S., so the race issues that made cannabis illegal here affected much of the world for decades and still does.
stoly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
However when the context is the US, you can keep your edginess to yourself.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
How is the context here the US exactly?