Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal

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Recommends klingonopera · 2020-03 · on “Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis”

Yeah, there are many political reasons for criminalizing it. What I found pretty eye-opening in the sense of "Oh wow, that's so obvious, I actually didn't think about that " was that one of the reasons was the American Prohibition in the 30s, and after it was abolished, a bunch of people were about to lose their jobs: [this video]

Cites Abekkus · 2018-09 · on “Military robots are getting smaller and more capable”

The drug war has always been a cultural and class war, and of course it cuts along racial lines, as well as political ones. Not nonsense at all. [this video]

Cites znpy · 2020-09 · on “Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison”

That's not "considerable information", that's a known fact. Adam Conove made a whole episode in his show, "Adam ruins everything", about the true reasons why weed is illegal. Link: [this video] Spoiler: it's about giving the government of the US a tool to discriminate black people and mexicans.

Cites nandhinianand · 2022-04 · on “My take on Elon's offer for Twitter”

Okay.. this comment finally got me to login and chime-in on this topic. > And I don’t care how rare it is. It’s not rare enough. It’s not good if it happens once. “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” And again, I agree that sometimes people just said something shitty or at least that got interpreted shittily, but I have never seen something even once where it didn’t feel like a horridly disproportionate response. Not even once. Completely agree... No arguments with this .. And as always there is a but.. (Note: following is not a personal or specific counter-argument to this comment). The general calling it "cancel-culture" or "leftist political correct