Prohibitionists like to say that illegal drugs are banned because they’re dangerous. That’s just a cover-up for the real, racist roots of prohibition.
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History
The racist truth behind the War on Drugs
U.S. President Nixon announced a ‘War on Drugs’ in 1971 – and it still impacts the way people who use drugs are treated worldwide.
Once upon a time, MDMA was legal – so what changed?
The Queensland Productivity Commission has recently called for the legalisation of MDMA for recreational use in Australia.
A brief history of Australian drug laws
The criminalisation of people who use those drugs might seem like it’s been around forever but most Australian drug laws are relatively new.