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		contourtrails on May 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sh... I'm with you, prohibition of weed is very backwards. But that's hardly slavery.

jMyles on May 5, 2018 [–]

Drug prohibition is indeed slavery - in the case of the text of the 13th amendment, literally so.

Moving the bar from "you're enslaved based on your color" to, "you're enslaved based on your diet" is not much of a move.

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