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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viking@infosec.pub 3 months agoNot everything in the world revolves around the US…
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
stoly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
However when the context is the US, you can keep your edginess to yourself.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
How is the context here the US exactly?
Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Sure but this does
viking@infosec.pub 3 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 3 months ago
And the US has exported marijuana prohibition all over the globe.
Hedgehawk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The US wasn’t even the first to ban it. In 1937 Marijuana Tax act was passed that effectively prohobited it, but a full ban came in 1970. Countries that banned it before 1937 include, but are not limited to: Thailand, Irish free state, Romania, UK, Indonesia, Australia, Lebanon, Sudan, Italy, Panama, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Jamaica, Greece, Singapore…