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How is nicotine legal? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by Fudoshin@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just got up and took about 7 big huffs on a vape while making a coffee. 2% strength and my vision went, everything went black I started blacking out against the kitchen counter. Had to kneel down and wait for it to pass before standing up to finish my coffee. Fucked it up in a cloud of confusion and drank a warm milk.

How the fuck is nicotine legal?

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Most of the drug laws are due to back door racism, at least here in the US. They couldn't make laws that directly targeted minorities and so they made laws that targeted things that were part of the targeted minorities culture. Opium and heroin laws seemed to target Asians and the weed laws seemed more to target "beatniks" and Native Americans. It's an interesting (if depressing) research topic of you've a mind.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari gives a good run down of the history of the drug war and how/why it came to be. Shocking and depressing.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Also the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on the US Crack Cocaine Epidemic is a good look at that end of things.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

I cant find it now, but there's a great quote from someone in Nixon's FDA that basically amounts to "We were lying about the drugs to target the minorities. We knew we were lying.", some real Legion of Doom shit.