• @[email protected]
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        149 months ago

        How do you know where the OP is located? Alcohol is legal in most countries, and cannabis is illegal in most. This question applies almost anywhere in the world.

          • @[email protected]
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            The US wasn’t even the first to ban it. In 1937 Marijuana Tax act was passed that effectively prohobited it, but a full ban came in 1970. Countries that banned it before 1937 include, but are not limited to: Thailand, Irish free state, Romania, UK, Indonesia, Australia, Lebanon, Sudan, Italy, Panama, Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Jamaica, Greece, Singapore…

            • @WhoPutDisHere
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              Technically, we were the first to make any Cannabis legislation, in 1619.

              Only problem, it was to force folks to grow it.

              Weird.

              Seems the church was the first to ban it’s use in 1484, does papal law count? Not sure on Tony’s Sources.

              • Caveman
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                Sure does, the Papal States was a country back the.

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      In this case it is. Cannabis laws globally were influenced, often coerced by the U.S., so the race issues that made cannabis illegal here affected much of the world for decades and still does.

      My answer to the OP’s question, I think alcohol fits in a capitalist society better than cannabis. Same with caffeine and nicotine. Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine are addictive, (caffeine arguably also facilitates labor), and don’t tend to cause pondering one’s place in the world, etc.

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        How is the context here the US exactly?

        Edit: sure, I guess just downvote me for asking an innocent question, not sure what’s going on here.