• Groovy Lizard@lemmy.eco.br
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    11 months ago

    For me the most impactful sentence here is the acknowledgement that the war on drugs failed. This is obvious to a lot of us, but to politicians to say this, could mean they are actually not tangled up with the drug lords. Cheers for Switzerland, hope the legal marijuana trials triumph with positive outcomes.

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      11 months ago

      The war on drugs was widely successful when you start considering that it was never meant to combat drugs. It was a political maneuver to divide the populace.

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      11 months ago

      I thought the War on Drugs was a distinctly American thing, ya know, starting a war that’s doomed to fail.

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        11 months ago

        Nope, here in Brazil they love to copycat the US where it fails the most, like education, healthcare, prison system and war on drugs. Sadly the whole south america follows this path at some degree.