• EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The weed drug trade only exists because of the legal status of weed. Nixon is ultimately responsible for everyone killed because of it.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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      11 months ago

      This might be the most Lemmybrained reductionist take I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot