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EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe weed drug trade only exists because of the legal status of weed. Nixon is ultimately responsible for everyone killed because of it.
We can blame whoever we want, but deaths are deaths. We can even go further and say that the deaths to user ratio makes the disparity even greater.
Hell, we could go completely nuts and say the stamp tax on tea and other goods leading up to the American Revolutionary War led to the creation of the United States, and therefore, all deaths resulting from the actions of the US could be blamed on caffeine.
Yeah, that’s an intentionally obtuse abstraction of the issue.
You know better.
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Yes that’s the sound you heard, good job, not all your senses are fried.
Hate to break it to you, but 100% of people who drink water either have or will die.
Cannabis has been associated in fatalities in countries where it’s completely legal.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This might be the most Lemmybrained reductionist take I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Expand on your problems with it, then.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Richard Nixon did not invent Marijuana hysteria. He just used a pre-existing societal issue to sway one side (and punish the other). The Nixon Administration also didn’t force cannabis criminalization onto a pro-legalization country. Dispite what you might think, the majority of Americans polled against Marijuana legalization for most of modern American history -both before, during, and for decades after Nixon left office.