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>>17573714 “War on [some] Drugs”
>UGH…That shit started under Reagan I believe…i remember the propaganda commercials….
LOL!
You need to go back, way back
You could tracy it back to the corruption of Gospel teachings by the Church (which was really the State), but in America it began with the prohibition of opium dens, which were targeted to disrupt the migration of cheap Chinese labor into the U.S. workforce.
As I discerned long ago, removal of cannabis from schedule I status will never happen because it would destroy the grand delusion of drug prohibition:
“If you can buy a drug/therapeutic over the counter, from your local farmer, or grow it in your own backyard, then it either doesn’t work (as a therapeutic) or worse, is “evil” - causes addiction, which makes people violent and immoral.”
Thus, ending prohibition of [some] drugs would cause the whole system of institutional control to collapse. I’m sure that prohibitionists don’t rationalize it in this way, but they don’t have to. They fall back on regulatory scaffolding predicated on the residue of false morality. But, it should be readily self evident that our current system of laws is discordant with the natural moral laws of humanity. For example, it’s perfectly “legal” in America for a cop to take your cash and even your property without due process or even charging you with a crime. And I’m not impressed with their Orwellian doublespeak. “Civil asset forfeiture” is legalized theft, which is fucking immoral! PERIOD!
Drug Prohibition is not and never was about protecting the public. It has always been about controlling market share, which is why the narcotics bureau (now the DEA) was spawned from the US Treasury Dept, not any agency concerned with human health.