Re:Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana
by deprecative on Friday May 17, 2024 @03:32AM
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The US' War on Drugs was created to subjugate minority and leftist communities. The powers that be admitted as much.
Re:Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana
by mc32 on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:42AM
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No doubt that was the case for many instances; however, I would posit that even if the US had been homogenously either black or white as a nation, in either case as a country we would still have controlled those substances. By and large, the only places that didn't control narcotics were locations with poor/weak central governments or a history of proscribed consumption (central Asia had/has a history where it's customary for older folks to consume, but it is heavily frowned upon for non older people to consume.)
You have to realize countries will make things terrible crimes by framing something anti-colonialist.