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Mexican immigrants referred to this plant as “marihuana”. While Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” because it was present in almost all tinctures and medicines available at the time, the word “marihuana” was a foreign term. So, when the media began to play on the fears that the public had about these new citizens by falsely spreading claims about the “disruptive Mexicans” with their dangerous native behaviors including marihuana use, the rest of the nation did not know that this “marihuana” was a plant they already had in their medicine cabinets.
The demonization of the cannabis plant was an extension of the demonization of the Mexican immigrants. In an effort to control and keep tabs on these new citizens, El Paso, TX borrowed a play from San Francisco’s playbook, which had outlawed opium decades earlier in an effort to control Chinese immigrants. The idea was to have an excuse to search, detain and deport Mexican immigrants.
That excuse became marijuana.
This method of controlling people by controlling their customs was quite successful, so much so that it became a national strategy for keeping certain populations under the watch and control of the government.
During hearings on marijuana law in the 1930’s, claims were made about marijuana’s ability to cause men of color to become violent and solicit sex from white women. This imagery became the backdrop for the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 which effectively banned its use and sales.
And no one wants their kids to buy heroin from the drug dealer behind a warehouse. And no one wants their kids to buy whisky at the supermarket.
Your point is silly.
No, people don't want their kids buying heroin. That's why it's illegal. Like I said. So people don't want their kids to buy heroin from a drug dealer, so therefore it should be made legal. Uh huh. I can see why you keep carrying on about marijuana. I get the impression that you smoke a whooooooooole lot of it.
And if you don't know that heroin is more harmful than alcohol, well, you're very uninformed on the subject.
Mexican immigrants referred to this plant as “marihuana”. While Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” because it was present in almost all tinctures and medicines available at the time, the word “marihuana” was a foreign term.
I'm not assuming anything. Would poor black neighborhoods be better off with more heroin and crack dealers on the street? Yes or no?
You missed the whole point- the matter is the method in which those drugs get into the country and head on a direct pipeline to these communities. Rarely if ever have you seen or do you see 'black people" charged with IMPORTING ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO THE USA.
This is orchestrated at a higher level, if you want to talk about "crack" look to Ronald Reagan and Oliver North and study up on the Iran Contra Drug for Guns - Central America War Reagan used drugs money to fund. Following the high level importation of drugs to these communities also brought with it "Prison's for Profit"... the string of things has many extensions.
Drug Dealing that dominate communities is done in communities where there is no Industry and no potential for anyone bringing Industry. All the Major cities like Detroit were Industrial Centers. The best way to devastate the people is to disband and export the industry and IMPORT the drugs. That equal "deterioration" and blocked pathway out of these enclaves.
One has to understand the vile of the system and those who constructed, managed and regulated it, and those who still run the systems today. They are far and above removed from the street level, they sit in high places.
Just like the guy who wrote the article to expose the activity in the Reagan Administration, be for sure, there are many more who knows exactly what this guy is talking about, and they certainly are not all dead, and all of them who died did not die without passing on their system for the legacy sake of their agenda.
Poor people programs and benefit allocations, Maintaining Status of Ghetto's and Prisons both for Profit and System Operated is very PROFITABLE to a segment of the elites.
You missed the whole point- the matter is the method in which those drugs get into the country and head on a direct pipeline to these communities. Rarely if ever have you seen or do you see 'black people" charged with IMPORTING ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO THE USA.
This is orchestrated at a higher level, if you want to talk about "crack" look to Ronald Reagan and Oliver North and study up on the Iran Contra Drug for Guns - Central America War Reagan used drugs money to fund. Following the high level importation of drugs to these communities also brought with it "Prison's for Profit"... the string of things has many extensions.
Drug Dealing that dominate communities is done in communities where there is no Industry and no potential for anyone bringing Industry. All the Major cities like Detroit were Industrial Centers. The best way to devastate the people is to disband and export the industry and IMPORT the drugs. That equal "deterioration" and blocked pathway out of these enclaves.
One has to understand the vile of the system and those who constructed, managed and regulated it, and those who still run the systems today. They are far and above removed from the street level, they sit in high places.
Just like the guy who wrote the article to expose the activity in the Reagan Administration, be for sure, there are many more who knows exactly what this guy is talking about, and they certainly are not all dead, and all of them who died did not die without passing on their system for the legacy sake of their agenda.
Poor people programs and benefit allocations, Maintaining Status of Ghetto's and Prisons both for Profit and System Operated is very PROFITABLE to a segment of the elites.
When the US went after Escobar, he knew they cooperated with him for many years, when they turn policy tables on him, he warned them, not only would he send Cocaine, he would send Crack, and the substance that Cocaine is made of, which they called Busaco (Cocaine paste, also known as coca paste, paco, pasta base or basuco) it is multiple times more addictive than Crack....
It scared the heck out of Reagan Administration!!!!!!!, because they knew they had worked hard to establish the smuggling routes and it would be no problem for the Colombians to send Busaco in mass quantity. Reagan's Admin backed off of Pablo Escobar, and allowed his government to house him in own mountain retreat as a form of "pretend its prison".
If Escobar had not engaged war with his government, they would have protected him for a very long time, but as things are today, it morphed into the transport networks developing their own Cartels, which became the dominant leaders when Escobar was killed and the Colombian Cartel was diminished. Today, we have the Sinalo'a Cartel and what ever others that exist in the Mexico Region and Central America Region.
It's a very big picture with many moving parts.... but it has direct pathway and targeted communities still to this day, and they are not all just black communities, there are poor white communities, Mexican and Latin communities and just where do you think the Heroin which has invaded the Midwest is coming from.
Now these MEGA Billionaires can too produce "Pills" by the billions, and they have a smuggling network that is well established as now being a "cocktail of drug types" moved as if its on a high speed rail system directly to THE POOR...
I didn't know your point was "drug use is race blind". I agree with that.
My point is that marijuana prohibition started in the 1930s with racial objectives.
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