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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.

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viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not everything in the world revolves around the US…

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- Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sure but this does
  
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  - viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And the US has exported marijuana prohibition all over the globe.
    
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- mojo_raisin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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- stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  However when the context is the US, you can keep your edginess to yourself.
  
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  - Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    How is the context here the US exactly?
    
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