3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWhy is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhy is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThey tried to make it illegal and the results were disastrous, one could argue the same for marijuana but the campaign to keep it illegal was much more successful.
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoBootleggers and alcohol could deposit their money in bank accounts. Legal grow-ops* can not. *I fail to see how autocorrect can “correct” to completely different words in no way similar.
minus-squareMisterD@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThat’s because cannabis was more popular with black people in the 70s. The racists used the cannabis laws against blacks because it gave them a bonner
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoIt definitely started much earlier than that, but yes.
They tried to make it illegal and the results were disastrous, one could argue the same for marijuana but the campaign to keep it illegal was much more successful.
Bootleggers and alcohol could deposit their money in bank accounts. Legal grow-ops* can not.
*I fail to see how autocorrect can “correct” to completely different words in no way similar.
That’s because cannabis was more popular with black people in the 70s. The racists used the cannabis laws against blacks because it gave them a bonner
It definitely started much earlier than that, but yes.