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c/politics · by boelder@lemmy.world · 67d

Supreme Court sides with a Texas man who says it’s not a crime for marijuana users to have guns

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-guns-drugs-marijuana-texas-a60ce6df9e735c6bc7def285ca396784

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 67d (4 replies)

That's a sensible ruling. No idea why MJ was ever singled out for such a thing in the first place.

It's just a holdover from the days of people queening out over a plant and buying into all the War on (Some) Drugs hysteria.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 23 pts · 67d (3 replies)

Because black people are more likely to toke and this is a great way to deny black people the right to own guns.

Carl@anarchist.nexus · 21 pts · 67d (1 reply)

This isn’t even sarcasm or a conspiracy theory. This was literally why the Feds started the war on drugs. There are records of officials talking about it, and they outright state that it was started because they wanted to criminalize historically black behaviors. Because they could then use that to target black communities.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 67d

Yep, 100%. They also wanted to target liberals, too.

“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

[emphasis mine]

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie

boelder@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 67d

100%

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 67d (3 replies)

That stuff isn't addictive anyways

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 67d (2 replies)

Idk man. I know it's not addictive for the average person, but I know some people that use once and then BAM! Their whole identity is about it. Shirts just covered in images of guns. They get a gun for their gun. They start carrying them around everywhere like a safety blanket. They play around with them like they are toys and do little quick draw motions.

It all seems pretty addictive behavior to me.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 67d (1 reply)

I meant the weed not the guns lol.

artyom@piefed.social · 9 pts · 67d

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