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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by rjknight on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:10PM (#25016373)
In many cases yes: European attitudes towards the lower classes are often similar to (though not as extreme as) racist attitudes in the US.
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Re:Voters rejecting the war on drugs is a win for public health by tpxl on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:52PM (#25016797)
Lots of European countries (and probably the rest of the world) also copy US laws for no apparent reason.

More or less everyone I know has tried drugs (MJ, magic mushrooms, LSD) or does them on a regular basis, but I don't know anyone who's ever been arrested over it. What I'm saying is there doesn't seem to be (much) of a stigma against drugs, neither with the population, nor with the cops. Nevertheless, MJ is illegal, and the protests for legalization started soon after the ones in the US.

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