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[–] 101 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Outlawing cannabis products was essentially an exercise in deliberate systemic racism in the US. (Nixon).

Unsure about the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it was about paper prices?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Yep, William Randolph Hearst fucked everything over for his textile businesses long before Nixon, but it is true that racism played a big factor, namely beginning to refer to it as marijuana instead of cannabis and linking that to those pesky Latinos

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Making cocaine illegal was for black people. Weed was for the hippies.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah. To suppress the anti (Vietnam) war protests.

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