• jeff 👨‍💻@programming.dev
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    7 days ago

    The War On Drugs is mostly a racist political policy from Nixon to prevent minorities and hippies voting.

    Alcohol is hard to control and too closely tied to many social occasions.

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      7 days ago

      It’s amazing when you’re treated with the respect to make your own decisions, innit?

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    7 days ago

    I remember my worst night with alcohol, i could barely WALK my bycicle home. Remember thinking “how can someone get behind a 1 ton vechile in THIS state”.

    Yeah. Alcohol is dangerous, yet its regulated because $$$.

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      Yeah. Alcohol is dangerous, yet its regulated because $$$.

      Well, also because prohibition was an abject failure.

      • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        One could easily argue that the prohibition of drugs has been an object failure as well, there’s just been $$$$ in keeping it illegal (along with racist reasons). Thankfully some states are seeing the $$$ of regulation, but the party of small overreaching government doesn’t like that and fights it tooth and nail in a lot of places. Wonder why?