Opinion de Noam Chomsky sobre la mariguana (subt)

Este audio ha estado circulando en internet, sin embargo hasta donde sabemos no habia una versión subtitulada, parece que solo se tomo una parte de la conversación entera, pues en internet se encuentra este texto más completo: “Having a substance should not be considered a crime, because so far it’s victimless. If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, yeah, that ought to be brought up, but then, let’s be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second. Hard drugs are way down the bottom, and furthermore most drug use, though it’s very harmful for the person, has very little social effect. The crime associated with hard drugs is mostly a consequence of criminalization. [Q: so should we go after the people who make cigarettes?] If the principle is, let’s not get lethal substances out to the public, the first one you’d go after is tobacco, the next one you’d go after is alcohol, way down the list you’d get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you’d get to marijuana. [Q: a lot more violence comes from someone snorting some coke?] No, it doesn’t. It comes from purchasing coke and selling coke, but that’s because it’s illegal. That’s because of the criminalization of it, not the effect. There’re good studies of this. Tobacco doesn’t happen to cause violence, but alcohol definitely does. The deaths that are alcohol related are way beyond the deaths that are hard drugs related, if you separate, in the hard drugs case, the deaths that …
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