Re:After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doin...
by neither_color on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:31PM
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The argument is that Richard Nixon, a disgraced and impeached president, is conveniently responsible for all of the world's drug control "because racism." That sounds a little too comic book villainy to me. Nixon was such a failure that his successor could've immediately reversed that decision. To say that China is still to this day executing drug dealers because Richard Nixon was racist(which is true, I don't dispute that) is missing the forest for the trees.
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Re:After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doin...
by randomhodler84 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:20PM
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Nixon was a comic book villain. China executes political prisoners and sells their organs. What China does has no baring on sensible drug policy; quite the opposite.