Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?

• 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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      • Hedgehawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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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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