The weed drug trade only exists because of the legal status of weed. Nixon is ultimately responsible for everyone killed because of it.
Yeah, that’s an intentionally obtuse abstraction of the issue.
You know better.
This might be the most Lemmybrained reductionist take I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot
Nixon is ultimately responsible for everyone killed because of [Marijuana]
Richard Nixon did not invent Marijuana hysteria. He just used a pre-existing societal issue to sway one side (and punish the other). The Nixon Administration also didn’t force cannabis criminalization onto a pro-legalization country. Dispite what you might think, the majority of Americans polled against Marijuana legalization for most of modern American history -both before, during, and for decades after Nixon left office. You’re pointing fingers at the wrong person and the real ones responsible are laughing at you.
I’m at work right now but if you want a more in-depth response, let me know and I’ll try to write one tonight.
ETA: This doesn’t even begin to address the honestly hilarious Americocentrism and recency bias in that claim. Richard Nixon did not time travel back to 1378 and force Soudoun Sheikouni to make the private import of cannabis punishable by death in Joneima. King Andrianampoinimerina didn’t have a 300-year advance copy of the Control Substance Act when he instituted capital punishment for even possession. A ten-year-old Richard Nixon didn’t show up at the Palazzo Braschi and demand Mussolini outlaw maijuana.
