• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No, it’s not illegal because people thought it was evil. It was illegal because it allowed the government to jail black men and war protestors and throw away the key.

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      11 months ago

      …And because the cotton industry didn’t want to compete with hemp. … and more recently booze companies don’t want to compete with weed