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Everyone confused about the fucked up laws around drug control and the like in the united states: It is about locking up poor people in order to keep them from voting. It is about filling our prisons with non-violent offenders so we can force them to work for slave wages, and line the owners of the prisons and the politicians they fund's pockets. It's about political suppression, not about some moralistic crusade to…
There's only one good reason; Psychedelics make people question their existence and therefore, their social situation as well. The dictators don't like that.
Non-psychedelic drugs like opiates are banned to keep people in the mountains from defending their lands using opium money. I know, iv seen it done.
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CBD and THC can easily be monetized for profit so what's the issue?
We haven't left the 1920's in terms of using drug law to "clean up" "undesirables".
I'm always amazed when cannabis is more tightly controller than cocaine — which is also an illicit drug that has legitimate medical uses.
Such a shame because cocaine is a blissful, perfect drug and smoking crack is an especially excellent way to consume cocaine.
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> My dad was one of those people and I believed him until I tried it in my 20’s and saw that it’s a vice akin to drinking at its worst, and often very positive. Not the whole truth, as there are known rare side effects that are significantly detrimental. In my experience it also seems harder/rarer to be a high functioning regular user. But yeah. If I do accept that position though - I'm not sold the argument is in fa…
I’m sure the same would be said of alcohol. For either - what good has prohibition ever done for us?
I'm broadly in favour of selling every single drug to the public without need of a prescription, let people do whatever the fuck they want and live with the consequences (but there will be societal consequences too). Mostly I just long for consistency
As for the article: MAPS is also doing work related to expanding marijuana research, but I haven't been following that as much. However, based on the above, I recommend donating if this is something you care about!
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No need to hypothesize. The rampup of the drug war under Nixon was largely to attack blacks, hippies (antiwar), and other counterculture figures. [0] "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy chief) In the interim, it became a w…
That doesn't explain why it is banned in most countries around the world that didn't have Nixon nor blacks.
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No need to hypothesize. The rampup of the drug war under Nixon was largely to attack blacks, hippies (antiwar), and other counterculture figures. [0] "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy chief) In the interim, it became a w…
That doesn't explain why it is banned in most countries around the world that didn't have Nixon nor blacks.