The state has always made selective decisions about which drugs are criminalized – and which are not. Medical knowledge counts less than the question of which social group was getting intoxicated. A History of Irrational Drug Policy.
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Ronen Steinke
The prize for the most ingenious contribution to the current cannabis debate goes to the CDU’s SME Association. The ladies and gentlemen from the economic wing recently tweeted happily: We would like to visit them at their stand at a meeting of the Junge Union. “We have the cannabis of the commoners: beer”. That was ironic because the CDU members mocked the traffic light parties’ requests for legalization. But it was also a nice way of admitting that for decades you had criminalized something that belonged primarily to “the others”. To the non-bourgeois.