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I remember that when I was getting this “lesson“, my first question was “what about medication’s?“ And my teacher replied with “those aren’t drugs“
And I replied “then why do they call it the drugstore?” then my teacher sent me to the principal’s office for being “smart“. I didn’t understand what was wrong with being “smart“.
Yeah, I've had that same discussion even as an adult. It usually follows like this:
"No, I mean addictive drugs"
"Like tobacco?"
"No, I mean psychoactive drugs"
"Like Coffee?"
"No, recreational drugs"
"Like Alcohol?"
I have never had someone give a description of why weed should be illegal but not tobacco.
no one ever told you? it was to fuck with leftists and racial minorities. the same reason for everything fun being illegal.
Because you can quite easily grow your own weed avoiding them sweet sweet tax money you're forced to pay when buying tobacco products. That's the only logical explanation I could craft and I've been thinking about the same question for a long time.
To be fair I was frankly amazed as a child that in American tv and media they so openly had shops called "drug stores"
About 100+ years ago, drugstores/pharmacies were referred to as the “Druggist“. In Europe, the term “Chemist” was more popular. I would imagine that would be the etymological origin of the term.
I think they still use "chemist" in Europe