"Laws around them basically amount to pre-crime, based on the heuristic that people who use drugs go on to commit crimes, and therefore, drugs are banned."
Isn't that precisely the argument against immigration? "immigrants commit crimes statistically"?
Globe99
npub147…paq44
2026-01-27 16:02:22 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…wcqw
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