Won't matter

Post #313,901 by drook 9/11/09 10:57:08 AM Reply	Won't matter This has never been a pragmatic exercise. People who do drugs are "bad". Bad people should be punished. (What's that? Nicotine? Alcohol? No, I said drugs.) Okay, and there's the race thing. That's been true since they first banned pot to get at migrant farm workers. -- Drew
Post #313,902 by Andrew Grygus 9/11/09 11:16:55 AM Reply	The way I heard it . . . . . it was because if white girls smoked devil weed they'd be having sex with black musicians.
Post #313,903 by drook 9/11/09 11:44:26 AM Reply	Nope, we're both wrong It was originally targeted at the Hindoos. No shit. "Within the last year we in California have been getting a large influx of Hindoos and they have in turn started quite a demand for cannabis indica; they are a very undesirable lot and the habit is growing in California very fast...the fear is now that they are initiating our whites into this habit." ... The Hindoos were widely denounced for their outlandish customs, dirty clothes, strange food, suspect morals, and especially their propensity to work for low wages. http://www.canorml.o...round/ca1913.html You might not want to click that link from work. It's for CA NORML. -- Drew
Post #313,904 by Andrew Grygus 9/11/09 12:18:44 PM Reply	Yup, but that's CA. The justification I mentioned was Federal and supposedly expounded in Congress.
Post #313,905 by drook 9/11/09 12:24:28 PM Reply	Either way, clearly been a racial thing since the beginning -- Drew
Post #313,911 by jake123 9/11/09 2:01:53 PM Reply	Not really... it was a money thing. Race is how they sold it to the plebes.
Post #313,920 by drook 9/11/09 2:54:43 PM Reply	Excellent point The only color "they" care about is green. Wealth disparity just happens to overlap with racial lines, which is what they use to sell their ideas to the proletariat. Well ... except I think the Duke brothers' attitude toward Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places is pretty common. -- Drew

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