Re:How the war on drugs creates violence
by pjc50 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:13AM
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I'd argue that, especially given the social history of how the prohibitions came to be, that it's the other way round: condemning 'vice' starts out as a pretext for social exclusion and blaming the poor for their condition. We don't want to help so we set up a situation where we don't have to.
Nobody suggests testing the financial services industry for performance-enhancing drugs, for example.
Nobody suggests testing the financial services industry for performance-enhancing drugs, for example.