The attempted coup d'etat [17] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may or may not [18] have been assisted by the CIA, but one of the Americans arrested [19] in the affair is named [20] as a "cannabis entrepreneur [21]"—pointing to the possibility of legal cannabis playing the same destructive role [22] in Central Africa that bananas have played [23] in Central America. Yet while corporate power sees a lucrative new cash crop, lives (and especially Black lives [24]) are still being ruined [25] by cannabis prohibition in the United States. In Episode 228 [26] of the CounterVortex podcast [27], Bill Weinberg argues that the old anarchist slogan [28] "Neither your war nor your peace" can be updated as "Neither your prohibition nor your legalization!"
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