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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by madaxe_again on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:47AM (#11328412)
That generation grew up earnestly believing that a single toke would drive you irrevocably insane, to murder, to rape, to jump from a tenth story window.

Watch "Reefer Madness" - it's reflective of the mindset these policymakers grew up with.

If you want to understand where that mindset ultimately came from, look at the history of cocaine prohibition - it boils down to racial politics.

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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by TheLogothete on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:04PM (#11329002)
No one smart ever believed that. Dumb people believed (and still do) that. Politicians just seized the opportunity to score some points. Same thing happens now with different topics.
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Re:Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years by tn13 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:30PM (#11348778)
Let us not judge those people as dumb please. I believed so because my parents, teachers and other government experts who visited school told me the same and I had no intention to find out myself.

It is only in modern times as I read more I learned the truth. Not everyone has time to educate themselves on these issues which many not concern them.

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