Kinda fucking stupid how the war on drugs disproportionately affects poor people because poor people don’t always have the means to do their drugs in private or “acceptable” settings.
It would be a good dose of karma if the kids from rich families who can do drugs without impunity had to suddenly face criminal charges like a poor person.
Maybe calling the cops isn’t even necessary (they probably won’t even show up, because cops). We could just record them doing drugs and submit that as evidence.
Laws aren’t going to change until rich people start being inconvenienced by them.
Dozens of countries have legalized weed in the last decade and I don’t remember any rich people being inconvenienced by weed laws.
You don’t? Because all the people I knew queuing up to get “medical” marijuana cards had a lot more disposable income than the median.
Not sure if I would say “more disposable income than the median” qualifies as rich. I was more thinking the top <5% or something. Otherwise I’m rich I guess.
Also the “medical” marijuana really never took off here. Almost everyone I know (and quite a few are rich by your standard) just stuck with the black market, even after legalization.
How would you know? Do you keep up with this information?
Because I was hardly inconvenienced by the weed laws and I’m not rich.
Okay, nice anecdote.
There are literally millions of regular drug users in every country that has prohibition. If the average Joe can get away with it, do you think the rich care? Use some basic common sense.
What about the people who don’t get away with it?
They are rarely rich.
Yes… so the laws against drugs aren’t affecting the people in power that can change them.