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2nding this. All socialists countries went and still do go hard on dismantling the drug trade, not from the bottom up by criminalizing and imprisoning poor ppl, but from the top down by imprisoning the capitalist drug kingpins, and tearing down drug markets. Capitalist countries prop up the drug trade by using it to impoverish and decimate poor and minority communities, and take a cut of the proceeds.
Ppl are usually staunchly for legalization because they've only experienced how capitalist countries like the US use the drug war as a tool. They don't know what an earnest dismantling of the drug trade, done for the betterment of communities, looks like.
Weed specifically tho i'm ambivalent about... outside of medical use, the weed industry serves little to no societal value, but it's a pretty minor vice, maybe along the same level as unhealthy food.
That's important point. I do believe legalisation of weed will help in US particularly, but again it's not very probable since US needs it to push people into prisons.
Elswhere... in Poland for example, legalising weed would not be even very impactful, since Poland is amphetamine country (one of biggest producer and consumer locally), so legalisation of weed would most likely immediately bring legalisation of amphetamine to the table. And legalisation of amphetamine would be really fucking terrible for the working class because a lot of people i know are already using it and it would spread to increase the exploitation.
The area I'm originally from in the U.S. has made those "meth capital of the country/world" tabloidesque lists before.
After legalization and talking to people from there, seems like the meth problem went down afterwards. Which is good.
However, I am talking about illegally manufactured meth -- the type that causes houses to explode. Adderall and other amphetamines are still getting prescribed like crazy.