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What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Production of cigarettes and tobacco.

As ex smoker who tried to quit so many times during almost two decades - I know how tough this drug can be and that it's wide acceptance as social norm makes it so much worse.

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because the war on drugs is working out great...

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What percentage of people smoke cigarettes compared to the percentage that do cocaine? Perhaps prohibition would dramatically reduce the number of users, even if that number is guaranteed to never reach 0?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Different drugs, which is why considerably more people smoked marijuana while it was illegal than did cocaine.

    And also, at what cost? Look at how many lives are ruined because of the war on drugs. Look at how many resources are wasted enforcing it.

    Tobacco usage is already a fraction of what it was decades ago.

    And everything he's saying about tobacco can be applied to, you guessed it, alcohol! So we should make booze illegal again? Because that worked out so well the first time?

    (to play devil's advocate, I also think that alcohol has a much greater case for being outlawed than tobacco for the collective harm it does to society)

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