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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by chillingeffect on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:05PM (#11881626)
like much of the Drug War storytelling, this perspective is based on fantasy. In this episode, drugs only exist in seedy neighborhoods. No charming, friendly people ever import them, make them available over craigslist, on college campuses, in white-collar workplaces.

As for groundless malice...you're half-right. It wasn't groundless, it was and still is racist in origin.

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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by gozur88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:23PM (#11881876)
Really? Then why are drugs illegal in, say, Norway? Or Japan? Racism?
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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by chillingeffect on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:11PM (#11904515)
That's actually a great question. I don't know about Norway, but in Japan, a good deal of it is due to US influence. We have exported our War on Drugs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_S...
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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by loqi on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:24PM (#11886062)
Early 1800s: "Then why is slavery still legal in England et al?"

Right now: "Then why is gay marriage illegal in Japan et al?"

Etc. Your point has nothing to do with the drug war itself, it's broad enough to apply to any early-stage progressive proposal.

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Re:DEA Wants Inside Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs by gozur88 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:08PM (#11886303)
You didn't understand the point, apparently. Countries that were nearly 100% racially homogeneous when they banned drugs couldn't have been doing it because of racism.
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