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

• 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.

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  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the US has exported marijuana prohibition all over the globe.

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    • Hedgehawk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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…

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      • WhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Technically, we were the first to make any Cannabis legislation, in 1619.

        Only problem, it was to force folks to grow it.

        Weird.

        Seems the church was the first to ban it’s use in 1484, does papal law count? Not sure on Tony’s Sources.

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