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> but at the end of the day, you're still a drug dealer
>No matter how much good you do, you're still a drug dealer at the end of the day.
I'm not a drug dealer anymore than a gay person is a "faggot". Belittling me with labels manufactured by the oppressors (e.g. "drug dealer") is not conducive to any peaceful recognition of cannabis as medicine.
There are families in Himachal Pradesh, India, who support themselves by their mutual reciprocity and symbiosis with cannabis. There are families in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia, who support themselves with their mutual reciprocity and symbiosis with coca leaves. The same can be said about cultures in East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania) and their relationship with coffee (which contains a "drug"). Or the tea-growing regions of China, and the generations who tend the poppy fields in SE and Central Asia.
Consider this example. Serotonin and L-dopa (the precursor to dopamine) exists in mucuna pruriens. Our brain constituents are mirrored in nature. Because we exchange with one another these keys which unlock the mind, we are not drug dealers. This is an antiquated category to pigeon-hole the choices that people make.
>Until we have decriminalization, legalization with some for of regulation, drug dealers will always have targets on their backs.
These are global idea structures evolving by proxy of political language. There is much more at stake than money and drugs. Check out "The Silk Roads: A New History of the World". For insight into the role that psychedelics have played in shaping these technologies, tune into "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry".
I assume it only includes the GNP of the national economies, and not the population (or its economic output) of colonies. Of course, whatever value was extracted and actually flowed back in the form of corporate profits to the country owning the colony, is certainly counted in that GNP. But as I wrote, I don't see a huge jump in GNP for Belgium after 1885, so while I think that Congo certainly created several personal fortunes, this doesn't reflect in the overall wealth of the nation.
I also remember reading in Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads it was the same case for British India: The UK government carried almost all the costs (military especially) of empire, which cancelled out the additional corporate tax revenues it created for the public budget. That's why the business model of having a colonial empire crumbled, and the U.S.-model of having preferred trade partnerships and then becoming a reserve currency because of that global trade is far cheaper.
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