Awesome explanation of how government is once again using the same prohibition tactics and rhetoric as before. Great point about them wanting to criminalize currently legal drugs to make up their loss of margins when legalizing previously prohibited ones. I had never really thought about how the prohibition of cannabis was in part due to the failing of their prohibition of alcohol, the timing of it definitely lines up for sure. I will fight for Kratom to stay legal, it is literally the only substance in the world that helps with the muscles tension in my back, that also does not have negative effects. Analogs are whack, and also a great new target for drug regulation authorities, but people do not take to those like they do to substances like Kratom that have serious medicinal benefits, which is what makes it a good target for them. I think it will be one of those things where you have to have a prescription for it, which I also do not agree with, its just a plant.
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"the timing of it definitely lines up for sure" For the most part. There were a few local bans going back to the early 1900's but most of those were on the southern border and they were mostly just an excuse to harass Mexicans but the big push came later.
I have heard good things about kratom but I have never gotten around to trying it. I have some knee pain so it might help. I think you might be right. If it has real health benefits then it is a threat to the pharmaceutical companies in the same way that weed is. If I was a little more knowledgeable about the substance I might write about but I really have focused most of my experimentation with psychedelics and cannabis.
All that synthetic stuff is pretty bad from what I understand but it really is a problem that they created. The traditional illegal drugs tend to be better at giving people what they are after and are usually safer. I said it in the other comment but no one buys spice if they can smoke weed.
In Japan the synthetic crap is used by a lot of people since pot is illegal. Whenever some traffic accident happens and it is discovered that synthetic poison is in the bloodstream of a driver, they dedicate days after days of news coverage reporting about the horrors that can result if you do such depravity. Of course, they never state that such crap exists mostly because possession of cannabis is verboten. Rather they just rave about how important it is to create new laws to regulate synthetics. In addition, they usually add that such terrible substances are flooding into the country because of the Chinese mafia and/or devils in North Korea. In the meantime, the real problem/cause - prohibition - is never addressed. Don't you just love Big State Government and Corporate Media?
"Of course, they never state that such crap exists mostly because possession of cannabis is verboten."
They never like to admit that bit. A lot of that synthetic stuff is pretty bad but it is a problem that could be solved over night by legalizing a few of the common and (relatively) safe drugs.
Yes, they would cease to exist shortly after legalization. Unfortunately, the State does not care and just wants to guarantee there continues to be dragons for them to slay. Otherwise, it gets harder to justify their budgets in the hundreds of billions.