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Not fully clear to me why Drug War is so irresistible to governments.
But vice wars tell a grim history in the U.S., eloquent disclosure of our hypocrisy on the Creator endowed, Constitutionally enumerated, unalienable right of Liberty.
Too much history to disclose it all in a paragraph here. But
it's worth noting, police departments used to have "vice squads"
that policed the detrimental crime of gambling.
Detrimental until States found a way to get "a piece of the $action".
Their semantic fig-leaf was to substitute the euphemism "gaming" for "gambling",
and to run the operation themselves.
State, & multi-State lotteries are a $windfall for government, a "stupid tax".
And while President Trump's America, the U.S. federal government is still in gung-ho Drug War posture,
most of the States have enlightened up on it, at least a little.
February 29, 2024
- 54% of Americans live in a state where the recreational use of marijuana is legal
- 74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.
Most Americans now live in a legal marijuana state – and most have at least one dispensary in their county
74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.
www.pewresearch.org
Drug War is intrinsically hypocritical.
If use of a particular drug was as bad as the scare-mongering Chickens Little pretend,
then why must government augment the harm with drug war?
Drug use is bad, BUT not quite bad enough on its own?
Miraculous! An invisible fig-leaf !
[palm plant]Shiftless2
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The history of marijuana in the US and its criminalization is almost completely race driven