420FootBager wrote:drug laws are fueled by racism?
I'm sick of everything being called racist it's getting old.
Ok, 1910, south africa, first modern prohibition as white govt tries to ban indian hemp because it's making the (black) mine workers lazy.
Early 1900's western states of america pass anti-pot laws in response to increasing use amongst mexican immigrants.
Harry Anslinger (first head of Federal Bureau of Narcotics) helps spread the reefer madness to include the fear of negros and aswell as claiming the drug was responsible for a string of murders 1930's newspapers now asserted that "Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others." -Harry Anslinger
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races." -Harry Anslinger
In every western civilization racial minorities are persecuted more frequently per capita than caucasians. This is particularly true in the US where until the mid 1980's whites were by far the largest users of cannabis and blacks by further the most commonly arrested. The trend still exists today but it's somewhat blurred by the rise of rap and hip hop which has seen a large infusion of cannabis into the afro-american culture.
From my land of Aotearoa "The study concluded that: "The bias with respect to Maori is of particular concern since it suggests that independently of cannabis use and previous police record, Maori were more likely to be arrested and convicted for cannabis use than non-Maori."" I'm sure if you bothered to look you could find a million examples. Not everything's about how much melatonin you've got, but when it comes to getting busted for herb i'm glad i'm a white boy.
