(05-18-2018, 03:53 PM)rollerjag Wrote: (05-16-2018, 12:04 PM)Kane Wrote: So wrong.
Initially the push back against marijuana was rich white people VS immigrant Hispanics.
More push back came from the textile industries and further push from big pharma.
You can look to the crack epidemic of the 80s and 90s if you want to see your government policing drugs in a way that impacts the black community.... (cocaine was a lighter sentence than it's almost equivalent "crack")
but to say that weed is kept illegal federally to "bring down the black man" is silly. If you're referring to the amount of blacks incarcerated for non-violent drug charges, you could have an argument on that, but I don't think the correlation can be made that because more blacks are incarcerated that is WHY the plant is still deemed a drug and illegal. (Two different issues)
Over three-fourths of all marijuana consuming adults are white (76%), while only two-fifths (20%) are Hispanics or African-American.
I've always called marijuana an enhancer.
If you're artistic, it'll help you get your Jim Morrison on. Lady Gaga has been quoted as saying she smokes a lot when she writes music.
If you're into being up and moving and getting and going... Marijuana will enhance what you already enjoy doing (shopping perhaps?)
If you're a gamer... it'll help you zone in on your first person shooters.
If you're a lazy tool, marijuana will make you an even lazier tool.
Quote:There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., 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.
- U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, testifying before Congress in support of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
The original laws against hemp and marijuana targeted all non-white people, Reefer Madness reinforced that idea. Statistics clearly show black people are arrested now for marijuana possession at significantly higher rates than white people.
Please don't reference Reefer Madness as anything other that silly propaganda (that made WHITE people look crazy for smoking it)
Harry Anslinger said that sure... but the issue at hand during those times was the massive amounts of migrant workers from Mexico.
It's all in the wonderful docu-series America's War on Drugs.
And I don't deny blacks are arrested at a higher rate than whites. That doesn't mean they actually smoke it more.
There is a serious issue to be discussed there but it isn't a marijuana issue. They aren't targeting marijuana smokers that are only black or because they are black.
The real issue is social and economical. The incarceration rate of black men is high, but it isn't just users but sellers as well. If there are more young black men selling drugs trying to make a living based on being brought up in a terrible social and economic climate there are more instances for them to be arrested.
Even still.... regardless of who uses more or who admits to using more, this whole thing came about from the idea that marijuana is still illegal in order to "put the black man down" and that is a silly notion.
