Flying SquidElton John Says Legalizing Marijuana in America and Canada Is “One of the Greatest Mistakes of All Time”
Hobbes_DentI 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 both societal use. I was going to say similarities in relative harm too, but alcohol is killing vastly more people than all other recreational drugs.
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.