For most of its history, the US was run by White-Power regimes that ruthlessly oppressed non-whites -- including the peoples that inhabited the continent before their arrival. It will take many more generations to live down this horrific and disgraceful shame. However, the preservation of this abominable legacy is well-hidden and is very much alive in US drug policy. This is not one man’s opinion but stone-cold fact.
With you answer, I would like to see some links I don’t know already. Thanks.
END THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST
END THE WAR ON DRUGS
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/histdrug.htm
http://november.org/graphs/index.html
2007-03-07 05:27:10 · 8 answers · asked by S D Modiano 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/race/
http://cjpf.org/professorsletter/
2007-03-07 05:41:05 · update #1
You got that right but, as much as I hate to admit -- and as evidenced by some of the answers here -- most Americans are imbecilic morons who are probably more interested in why Britney Spears shaved her head and checked in/out of rehab or who won the game than to take interest in history and how conniving politicians and bureaucrats have duped them into thinking it's somehow OK to trash our Constitutional liberty over "drugs."
2007-03-07 07:24:49 · answer #1 · answered by down_with_the_gop 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There were racial motivations for the various drug laws passed in the earlier half of the 20th century. However, racism is not the sole reason. To say that racism is the sole reason is simple minded and ignorant. You need to a little more reading from other sources besides the Internet. Opiates which were among the first drugs to be controlled, were mainly used by whites in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The use of opiates was staggering because of its prevalence in patent medicines and various other products. It was even used as a treatment for teething infants. It was banned because of the widespread abuse and addiction problems it was causing.
The use of racism was used to promote the ban of cocaine and marijuana. However it was not the reason either were banned. Moral crusaders had wanted to find ways to appeal to the public in gaining support for the ban of these substances. They played on people's fears over race and mounted campaigns with false stories about crazed blacks and Hispanics raping and murdering white people. The United States was not the only country that used racial propaganda to promote social policies. The majority race or ethnic group in all countries use techniques like this. If you want a non-white, modern day example; take a look at Rwanda and Sudan.
2007-03-07 05:44:19 · answer #2 · answered by wileycoyote_the_supergenius 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There seems to be a "hidden agenda" in your comments!
As a narcotics officer I enforce those laws based upon the laws of today...not yesteryear!
If you review the Controlled Substances Act you will see where drugs are catagorized into specific "schedules" based upon their;
1) Medical Use
2) Potential of abuse
3) Potential of addiction
These laws are established nationally and internationally and do not distinguish between ethnic backgrounds but upon a drugs medical benefits or pitfalls!
Until people learn that we all live on this same chuck of space called "Earth" together and that we all bleed red....live for the future and not IN the past...we can only improve our lives as a whole.
2007-03-07 05:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by KC V ™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because of the fact he's who he's. no longer as quickly as has he given a right this moment forward answer. Now his "religious adviser"has grow to be an "previous uncle" who speaks his concepts. talk approximately exchange. the only exchange that I see with this guy is that each and every time he speaks he differences a proof to disguise up who he particularly is.
2016-09-30 08:25:25 · answer #4 · answered by celia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regular cocaine is different from crack cocaine. Take for instance, I am a white female that dates black men, since I am white, the law would say that I do/sell cocaine, to where he is black, they would say he does/sells crack...The law has harsher penalities for crack than they do cocaine, and I find that very offensively. Regardless of whether you are white or black, cocaine is one thing and crack is another.
2007-03-12 19:31:53 · answer #5 · answered by August S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you get a hell of a lot harsher penalty for crack made with the same amount of cocaine as you would get from the cocaine itself.. because coke is an glamorous club drug used by white people and crack is used mostly by black people
2007-03-07 05:31:59 · answer #6 · answered by scolex89 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Drugs are illegal because there aren't good for you, nor society.
2007-03-07 05:42:59 · answer #7 · answered by Judge Dredd 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Duh. Snort away maricon...snort away.
2007-03-07 05:31:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋