Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?
viking@infosec.pub 7 months agoHow 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 7 months ago
And the US has exported marijuana prohibition all over the globe.
Hedgehawk@lemmy.world 7 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…
WhoPutDisHere@lemmynsfw.com 7 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.
olafurp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sure does, the Papal States was a country back the.