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[–] [email protected] 165 points 6 months ago (4 children)

For me the most impactful sentence here is the acknowledgement that the war on drugs failed. This is obvious to a lot of us, but to politicians to say this, could mean they are actually not tangled up with the drug lords. Cheers for Switzerland, hope the legal marijuana trials triumph with positive outcomes.

[–] Coreidan 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The war on drugs was widely successful when you start considering that it was never meant to combat drugs. It was a political maneuver to divide the populace.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Exactly, it’s not the war on drugs, it’s the war on blacks and the poor.

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