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Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal

truTV1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2018-2022
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4.2M views · 9 years ago · comedy · evergreen

An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that political motives, including Nixon's, lay behind making marijuana illegal. It mixes comedy with history.

Cited in cannabis and drug-war threads as an eye-opening look at the political reasons for criminalization.

Law, policing & justiceWorld historySatire & parody#drugwar#cannabis#nixon#adamconover#history

4 comments from Hacker News

@nandhinianand2022 · in “My take on Elon's offer for Twitter”

Okay.. this comment finally got me to login and chime-in on this topic. > And I don’t care how rare it is. It’s not rare enough. It’s not good if it happens once. “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” And again, I agree that sometimes people just said something shitty or at least that got interpreted shittily, but I have never seen something even once where it didn’t feel like a horridly disproportionate response. Not even once. Completely agree... No arguments with this .. And as always there is a but.. (Note: following is not a personal or specific counter-argument to this comment). The general calling it "cancel-culture" or "leftist political correctness forcing it's way (Aka fascist-leftist" narrative misses the point as much as the common "it's rare, but these people deserve it. They're horrible people" narrative. The way i look at it "freedom to innovate, and have a system that sets up a market that encourages innovation" has brought us this current social media centered around outrage, fear, anger and rage centered way of connecting to people. Those employers are "free-to-fire" as much as each person in the mob that responds with rage is free to express their opinion and the one person who uncensoredly tweeted something is free to make mistakes. So what's the solution, I don't know anything specific outside of going all mystic/mythic/wishful saying we should all practice empathy better, we should find better ways of connecting to

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@znpy2020 · in “Dream Vendor "Canna_Bars" Sentenced to Prison”

That's not "considerable information", that's a known fact. Adam Conove made a whole episode in his show, "Adam ruins everything", about the true reasons why weed is illegal. Link: ▶ this video Spoiler: it's about giving the government of the US a tool to discriminate black people and mexicans.

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@klingonopera2020 · in “Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis”

Yeah, there are many political reasons for criminalizing it. What I found pretty eye-opening in the sense of "Oh wow, that's so obvious, I actually didn't think about that " was that one of the reasons was the American Prohibition in the 30s, and after it was abolished, a bunch of people were about to lose their jobs: ▶ this video

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@Abekkus2018 · in “Military robots are getting smaller and more capable”

The drug war has always been a cultural and class war, and of course it cuts along racial lines, as well as political ones. Not nonsense at all. ▶ this video

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