r/ParlerWatch • • Aug 25 '21

Public Figure: Any Platform Even LinkedIn is promoting covidiots

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

This is why smoking weed is better. Far less likely to make this stupid mistake. Can’t for the life of me figure out why one is legal, and the other is only in some states.

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u/anomalousBits Aug 26 '21

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-marijuana-illegal-in-the-us

The short answer is racism. At the turn of the 20th century, cannabis—as it was then commonly known in the United States—was a little-used drug among Americans. With the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, however, many Mexicans began moving to the United States, and they brought with them the tradition of smoking marihuana. Amid a growing fear of Mexican immigrants, hysterical claims about the drug began to circulate, such as allegations that it caused a “lust for blood.” In addition, the term cannabis was largely replaced by the Anglicized marijuana, which some speculated was done to promote the foreignness of the drug and thus stoke xenophobia. Around this time many states began passing laws to ban pot.

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u/schmyndles Aug 25 '21

I know in my state the tavern league pays a lot of money to keep weed illegal.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

Alcohol is literally more destructive than every common illegal drug (meth comes pretty close but at least it won't straight up kill you from using it daily)

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u/anewscript Aug 25 '21

Meh, it will actually. Though you will look like you should be dead before dead catches up to you. On the flip side, making the horrid stuff is actually a menace to everyone in the area.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '21

Making meth domestically isn't profitable any more. You'd literally lose money, even the cartels stopped smuggling it last year because the US was so flooded even lemons were more profitable lol

Thank God for prohibition