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Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use by rayiner on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#17356439)
OP said that "criminality was the effect of the War on Drugs, not its cause." Maybe I am not understanding his point, but I took that to mean that crime was caused by the drug war, which cannot be reconciled with the data.
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Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use by zachrose on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:46PM (#17358421)
I meant that if you were to declare a similar War on Jaywalking, you'd see jaywalking rates skyrocket.
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Re:Canada legalises recreational cannabis use by ynniv on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:24PM (#17356826)
Ah, it was ambiguous (to me) what "The last point is unsupportable" referred to.
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