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> the illicit drug trade has been with us forever. Indeed. Century of Humiliation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation https://en.m.wikipedi

• Latteland 8y ago
  And even before westerners like my ancestors intervened in China, people were taking drugs. It was just that they punished only the lower classes. http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/addiction/addiction2.html http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/addiction/addi..., https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/representations-of-drugs-in-19th-century-literature https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/represen.... Also don't forget Edgar Allen Poe in the US. Anyway, after the good white people of the world (/s, ie probably my ancestors in the us) decided that black people were still a real threat, we got the 1920s anti-pot laws (http://origins.osu.edu/article/illegalization-marijuana-brief-history http://origins.osu.edu/article/illegalization-marijuana-brie...) and it continued even until Nixon tried his successful early "make harsh drug laws to hurt minorities" strategy https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich....
  • amanaplanacanal 8y ago
    Since in most states felons lose the right to vote, this seems like a winning long term political strategy.