• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s still wild seeing billboards for weed, even though there’s people still in jail for selling it. :/

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          2 months ago

          Yes, but selling drugs is not cool, even when there are legal institutions that are allowed to do it. You can also get amphetamines and opioids as real medication.

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            2 months ago

            So long as it’s being used in a responsible fashion and not being given to minors: why do you give even a single fuck?

            Once again, I’d like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.

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              2 months ago

              For your information, I’d like to mention that I actually joined the war on drugs. On the side of drugs of course

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        Back as late as ‘15, cannabis was illegal in large portions of the US, if not all of it. People, predominantly Black people, would be given heavy multi-decade sentences for distribution of illegal drugs. Since then, cannabis has become legalized in certain states, and yet those people are not free.

        When the weed shop looks like an Apple Store, but the people previously vending weed are in prison still, that’s a problem.

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          Federal vs state? Really shit that our country has like 85% non-violent prisoners, almost all are drug users.

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          2 months ago

          Also many cannabis capitalists are…the cops and judges who recently put black homegrowers behind bars.

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          2 months ago

          Someone selling drugs has a lot of responsibility. I am sure some of them were really cool and did some work to prevent harm. But sellers usually care a lot about money. Someone getting decades surely did not just sell a little bit?