i will never forgive capitalism for what it did to tobacco
@MollyNoise yeah. specifically, the race to the bottom to create something dangerously addictive to drain money from the working class, which is really only the capstone on several centuries of colonial interference in how the plant is used
@vriskommunism right right, yeah thats fucked
additionally,
iirc, i read something by an indigenous author a while ago that spoke about the social damage cheap bulk tobacco did historically to the social order of their tribe by making a ritual/prestige good suddenly commonplace
(my memory is not perfect here)
@vriskommunism destroyed its cultural use/value in pre-invasion north america ?