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minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up72·24 days agothat’s exactly why they made drugs illegal. to prosecute whoever they don’t like. specifically along ethnic lines
minus-squareedible_funk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·23 days agoYep war on drugs is and was explicitly racist.
minus-squareJakeroxs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·24 days agoMany laws like that where it’s unevenly applied
minus-square1985MustangCobra@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agohow about to stop people from using drugs, no matter who it is?
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·23 days agowhat is a drug? tabaco? alcohol? chocolate? where do you draw the line and how do you police it? if anything drugs are a personal health issue, not a legal issue.
minus-square1985MustangCobra@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agowe…have a schedule for drugs…like this isn’t a new concept.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoexcept that schedule is arbitrary and designed to fill jails with minorities.
minus-square1985MustangCobra@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agoUh don’t know about that, have a source I can read, and for the love of God, don’t do the “just google it” you made the claim.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoWhy is weed so dangerous and alcohol (Which is more addictive and dangerous) OK? also, why is it that when a white US president smuggles tons of cocaine is OK? but being black and using said cocaine is illegal?
minus-square1985MustangCobra@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agouh both weed and booze are bad, i agree with that. also both people should both be charged for having cocaine.
that’s exactly why they made drugs illegal. to prosecute whoever they don’t like. specifically along ethnic lines
Yep war on drugs is and was explicitly racist.
Many laws like that where it’s unevenly applied
how about to stop people from using drugs, no matter who it is?
what is a drug?
tabaco? alcohol? chocolate? where do you draw the line and how do you police it?
if anything drugs are a personal health issue, not a legal issue.
we…have a schedule for drugs…like this isn’t a new concept.
except that schedule is arbitrary and designed to fill jails with minorities.
Uh don’t know about that, have a source I can read, and for the love of God, don’t do the “just google it” you made the claim.
Why is weed so dangerous and alcohol (Which is more addictive and dangerous) OK?
also, why is it that when a white US president smuggles tons of cocaine is OK? but being black and using said cocaine is illegal?
uh both weed and booze are bad, i agree with that. also both people should both be charged for having cocaine.