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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by bluepanda928752 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:22PM (#27372854)
I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by heavyset_go on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:53PM (#27373898)
I know of a police chief who just retired with a $250k/year pension whose primary contribution to the community was arresting high school kids for smoking joints.
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by paxys on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:12PM (#27373492)
We just had one for Purdue Pharma. Spoiler alert: absolutely nothing happened to these friendly chaps.
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by aerostable_slug on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:46PM (#27373159)
How does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them?

I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil's Plant is terrible and shouldn't be legal anywhere — what then?

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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by bluepanda928752 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:00PM (#27373356)
I suppose we can extend the German analogy here as well, e.g. not trying to put half a country on trial might be the most reasonable option
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by belatw on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:07PM (#27374628)
Nixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by kstrauser on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:50PM (#27373204)
Did we have one post-Prohibition?
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Re:California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved... by bluepanda928752 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:56PM (#27373285)
If we don't either in this case, there's always a second option of doing the same thing Israel did to those who decided not to face a trial and ran away..
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