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Just need a minority in America to associate it with

Do you lot ever get tired of saying stuff like this? It’s not 2016 anymore, there’s no need for it.

Buddy relax. It's a joke about the way the drug war has historically developed. You might get more out of it if you read some history about marijuana in the US

You can stop though. Nobody on this side is served well by these ideas.

Sorry, do you think anyone isn’t aware of this factoid? Why do you think your comment is immune to criticism just because it references a historical event?

You appear to lack the historical knowledge to appreciate the joke:

The war on drugs was specifically designed to allow the government to go after the left and black people. Nixon's domestic policy chief said this in 1994:

* https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...

What makes you think I lacked the context here?

Because you failed to see how the historical context made it funny, and even responded in kind of a vicious way.

Why does the historical context make it funny? Is everything that references a historical event funny?

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