[drawkbox]

1970-2030+ or so will be seen as a drug dark age. A time where criminalization made everything more dangerous, and harm reduction worse. Part of a 60+ year gap in innovation using all substances for many health related cures and issues as well as recreational fun and exploration.

We learned nothing from alcohol (a drug) prohibition.

All prohibition and criminalization does is make everything more harmful, from use, to production, to creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.

[pessimizer]

Drugs have been largely a tool by the government to justify aggressive searches of poor people. I don't think the justice system we have can work only with only the search justifications of terrorism, child pornography, and intellectual property theft. Maybe I'll be surprised, though.

Maybe hate speech/bullying will be the new frontier. We have to know what everybody is reading and writing to make sure they aren't hating: "my dog alerted to the smell of a flash drive."

[chepaslaaa]

>creating cartels/mafias that become as powerful as nation states.

The state is balls deep in those cartels. Go read about Freeway Rick Ross and Afghanistan poppy fields for prime examples. It's all part of the military industrial complex, Peter Dale Scott has great books on the matter.

[acqq]

The books of the mentioned author on that topic:

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742525221/drugs-oil-and-war-the-...

https://rowman.com/isbn/9780742555952/american-war-machine-d...

Author's page:

https://www.peterdalescott.net/q/