How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world better

Re:How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is ... by jMyles on Sunday October 19, 2014 @04:45PM (#8479547)

Of course alcohol prohibition didn't even achieve its ostensible goal of eliminating alcohol from the American diet. Whether it reduced consumption at all (by volume of alcohol) is in dispute. There's no dispute that it lead to consumption of stronger beverages, in the same way that poppy prohibition has eliminated the use of poppy tea (an utterly benign preparation) in favor of heroin and even stronger drugs.

As for Jim Crow 'working,' it's notable that drug prohibition has 'worked' as a Jim Crow as well.

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Re:How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is ... by ddingus on Sunday October 19, 2014 @10:28PM (#8480477)

Actually, given all the attention on the well known, controlled substances, making a little Poppy Tea flies well under the radar, and sometimes happens with Grannie's decorative flowers.

That aside, the parallels regarding stronger formulations and compounds is spot on.

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