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Why are some drugs illegal and others are not? Learn the sordid history of the War on Drugs and why it doesn't work.
Covered topics: Allen Russell, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914, War on Drugs, Magic mushrooms, John Stuart Mill, Rick Doblin
Further Reading:
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2023_drugs.html
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-0e463c390bedc7f6b25fb7e54b955b74
https://lawliberty.org/the-simple-truth-about-j-s-mills-simple-truth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
https://www.aclu.org/report/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white
https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-prisons-thriving-jim-crow-marijuana-arrests#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrbUwNGoWc
https://fee.org/articles/how-15-ounces-of-marijuana-landed-this-man-a-life-long-prison-sentence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT4FrOYPtk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Truth_and_Lies_in_a_Nonmoral_Sense
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