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blackfox026 · 3940 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obama: marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer"
Many of the laws against drugs were put in place to outlaw a culture, not to eliminate use of the substance. Psychedelics were associated with a powerful counterculture in the 1960's, and so by making them illegal, the authorities gained another tool to use to suppress it.