Lawmakers in the state of Michigan introduced legislation last week that would adopt a total ban on pornography within the state. All of the proponents of the bill are anti-porn Republicans who liken legal porn to human trafficking and criminal conduct.
It doesn’t need to be absolute in success, it just needs to be applied arbitrarily to further abuse out-groups.
which will also have the opposite of their intended effect and create more crime via black markets, trafficking etc.
No, that is the intended effect. Their enemies will become criminals, which means they can arrest them and use them to justify further state power.
You mean “stated effect”, which you should know by now is almost always a lie, like when a politician’s lips move.
If I’m not wrong that was the whole point of criminalizing weed.