We learned nothing from alcohol (a drug) prohibition.
All prohibition and criminalization does is make everything more harmful, from use, to production, to creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.
We learned nothing from alcohol (a drug) prohibition.
All prohibition and criminalization does is make everything more harmful, from use, to production, to creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.
Maybe hate speech/bullying will be the new frontier. We have to know what everybody is reading and writing to make sure they aren't hating: "my dog alerted to the smell of a flash drive."
The state is balls deep in those cartels. Go read about Freeway Rick Ross and Afghanistan poppy fields for prime examples. It's all part of the military industrial complex, Peter Dale Scott has great books on the matter.
https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742525221/drugs-oil-and-war-the-...
https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742555952/american-war-machine-d...
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