Prohibition is back in vogue, and it never ends well | The Mail & Guardian

Anslinger was scouting for work along with a few thousand other Christian morality police facing redundancy — after the bars and clubs once again ushered custom through the front door — and found it in weed.

In February 2020 the UN’s narcotics board, ahead of next year’s 60th anniversary of its Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs’ crusade that ordained a plant “evil” and any other mind-altering drug in marijuana’s wake, suggested “maybe” the “taboos” should be reviewed. Portugal ignored society’s “good and bad drug” narrative and reasoned there were only healthy and unhealthy relationships with drugs. It has not led to the promised land of milk, honey and abstinence, but the cultural shift to treat addiction as a medical problem rather than a moral weakness reduced heroin addiction by 75%.

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