If I'm not wrong that was the whole point of criminalizing weed.
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Carmakazi@lemmy.world 13 hours agoIt doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 hours ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 hours ago
No, that is the intended effect. Their enemies will become criminals, which means they can arrest them and use them to justify further state power.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
You mean “stated effect”, which you should know by now is almost always a lie, like when a politician’s lips move.