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by alisonkisk 1835 days ago
The same argument applies to Turing being imprisoned for his homosexuality. There's nothing wrong with marijuana that deserves making it illegal, especially more illegal than murder, which was the point of this story!
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That was going to be another point I wanted to raise.

Homosexuality was illegal not so long ago, but it also harms no one and is approximately the business of only those directly involved.

And yet we used to persecute people for... what? Something we'd been conditioned to reflexively disagree with.

Shameful.