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If bans never work, (Original Post)
edhopper
Oct 2017
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nini
(16,672 posts)1. good question
Vinca
(50,248 posts)2. I think it has more to do with control over women.
It's clear they don't give a shit about kids since they let the CHIP healthcare coverage lapse.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)3. Social control.
Pregnancy becomes a tool of punishment for the unwed and a tool to keep women out of the workforce for the married.
shanny
(6,709 posts)4. I'll go you one better:
if bans never work, why do they care if there is one?
also too: why do we have laws against drunk driving? Or murder? We still have both of those things so
n2doc
(47,953 posts)5. or drugs?
Clearly banning MJ and other drugs hasn't eliminated drug use. So why ban them at all?
Man_Bear_Pig
(89 posts)6. I'm for legalizing all drugs.
Next to the weed store, you have the painkiller store, next to that you have the meth one, crack one and speed one; eventually you get your Walmart of drugs. Let people use recreationally or destroy their lives as they please.