• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Coincidentally one of the reasons that led to the prohibition of cannabis.

    Who smoked weed? Black people, brown people, and when the war on drugs really ramped up…hippies.

    Nowadays most rational people realized the war on drugs was bunk and people of all walks and colors smoke weed.

    I doubt it’s a coincidence that the states that haven’t decriminalized yet are the ones that still love to hassle PoCs and hippies the most.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      It was Mexicans too. It’s where the “lazy Mexican sleeping in the shade” comes from.

      If you’re willing to question cannabis legality maybe look at other drugs too. Coca leaves were chewed by native tribes millennia ago to help with long journeys. Kratom was used in Asia to help with long harvest days. Celts were eating shrooms millennia ago.

      Humanity has a LONG history of drug use with nothing off-limits and there was no societal collapse from it. It’s the past century puritan ideals that are a serious aberration.

      Did you know it’s statistically more dangerous to go horse riding than take Molly? The toilets in the UK Parliament were tested for cocaine and all tested positive. No drug should be illegal.

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