Please don’t care about up/down votes… but if anyone wants to downvote this then please do.

Split infinitive? To boldly go or to go boldly? If it’s intelligible I’d let it slide - second languages and all that.

When has banning something never not worked?

Yes, that’s literally my point too. Because the law decided to make it a crime there are victims. If it was not criminalised then none of my scenarios would exist. Without the “crime” there would be no victims - which is what you correctly stated.

I haven’t seen any pro-prohibition comments and really don’t care about votes or whatever. Internet strangers ain’t no thing to me; respectfully.

I’ve smoked weed for 35+ years - I am as anti-criminalisation as you could ever meet.

The “crime” only exists because of the law; so a person coaxed to bigotry from a young age would still be a(nother) victim of said “crime.”

But this is just an opinion, from me. It’s fine to not agree; in fact it’s good.

Hey, let’s not forget the victims of trafficking that got to become indentured farmers at the behest of criminal overlords in jurisdictions where cultivation is criminalised.

Let’s not forget the militias that get armed via resin and kiff sales.

Let’s not forget the corner boy who gets nanked for slinging off the wrong curb.

I wish the ganja business people were more like their target audience in demeanour; but criminals always going to criminal.

For a different perspective over in the UK the vast majority of pubs were (are?) members of “Pub Watch.” Every so often the Police would turn up with a photo list for the premises of banned people in your area. It’s worth noting that everyone on the list had been criminally convicted of alcohol related violence and were subject to banning orders.

Hello?

I don’t believe any crime is without victim (s).

I don’t think I made a typo.

Anyone who grows up thinking that two - or more - consenting adults can’t live or love together is a(nother) victim of that (in the legal sense only) “crime”.

Where I currently live there is an old and much copied legal system but I’m not really qualified to think about nor answer your second question.

Just like smoking crack - the human is both the victim and the perpetrator in that crime.

I’m all for kinks and all that, if it floats your boat, but “cross-species” romance, absence of consent or liking humans that are “a bit too young” is where I’d have to draw a line.

Some police forces take training very seriously; perhaps not where you live, admittedly, but not all police forces are equal.

Damn. Those lists are neither fake nor gay. What’s happening?

The overriding memory of that life was right at the beginning when an old timer that I’d just started to roll with told me this: “There’s no such thing as victimless crime - so choose your victims carefully.” That really stuck with me.

Is that B-Rabbit from 8 Mile? That’s a strong new look if so.

In the UK it’s illegal to have a car horn that operates at more than a single pitch/tone, but there didn’t seem to be a limit on volume… laws be wild.

Kill a relative or two as a final favour. Check if the wife still wants to live, check if I can be bothered to carry on. If so I’d either head into the mountains or down to the coast (get a boat) and try and get away from population centres for a year.

Edit: Sorry, just seen “selfhosted”. I’ve got about a terabyte of stuff on sd cards - super packable. Those, a handset, a wind-up radio and solar phone charger.

Yeah, for sure. But with the actual question being asked I wasn’t going to get all historical - I thought I’d stay with an eli5 answer for simplicity.

Just to clarify / confuse but both Irelands (republic and north) are on an island in the British Isles… but, yeah, the Irish Irish certainly ain’t British; as we’re using it here.

It is an “interconnected network” which, yes, originally used only cables - because that’s all there was.

A car is still a car - even when you substitute the combustion engine for an electric motor.

Satan. Loses his job over a difference of opinion and then suddenly becomes the complete antithesis, and raison d’être, of his boss. How convenient. He just screams “plot device” to me.