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Elton John Says Legalizing Marijuana in America and Canada Is “One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time” (www.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I appreciate his history and how it guides this, but I argue that - in the context of addiction - not banning alcohol and its societal promotion is a greater harm by any government. Absurd? Yes. But deep down inside it’s no more absurd than prohibiting marijuana considering their similarities in societal use. I was going to say similarities in relative harm too, but alcohol is killing vastly more people than all other recreational drugs.

Canada legalizing marijuana simply stopped criminalizing normal society. The matrix of harm/help of alcohol, weed, and others is way more complex than prohibition.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

We already know what alcohol prohibition did in the U.S. and we know that our prisons are filled with people who happened to have a dime bag in their pocket when a cop stopped them. He's not an idiot. He has to know about both of those things.