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No, sorry. Study history. Weed was criminalized as a mechanism for white people to control black people, because weed was a Mexican and black person drug when
by mellavora 4y ago
No, sorry. Study history.
Weed was criminalized as a mechanism for white people to control black people, because weed was a Mexican and black person drug when those laws were enacted. It's all in the arguments in favor of the criminalization laws when they were passed.
nothing to do with the Protestant Work Ethic.
Sorry if the phrase "black person" is offensive, none is meant.
- lbotos 4y agoI think you missed the point. Protestant work ethic does not want people "being lazy". In that era when workers were Black and Mexican and smoking, protestant work ethic is what is making white people in power want to stop people from having a little escape.
- imtringued 4y agoThe point of the protestant work ethic is about splitting society into lazy and hard working. Any sane person knows that people should decide how much division of labor they want for themselves.
- mariusor 4y agoCan you tell us how does your theory apply to the other countries of the globe where marijuana is illegal though?
- mason55 4y agoAmerican hegemony.
- NickRandom 4y agoHmm. Perhaps we studied different histories? As far as I was aware, the criminalization of weed was related to hemp being a competitor to the wood/paper industry. https://greathemp.net/why-hemp-was-banned-in-1937/ https://greathemp.net/why-hemp-was-banned-in-1937/
- mschuster91 4y ago> "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." The war on drugs was purely designed to target hippies and people of color [1]. The sooner it is gone on all levels, the better. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...
- mardifoufs 4y agoThis is such an US centric take, on an article about Germany.
- mschuster91 4y agoI'm German. The complete ban on cannabis and the begin of the full blown war on all drugs and not just opiates in Germany came in 1971, three years after the mentioned events. We only have cultural hegemonism of the US to "thank" for that.
- concinds 4y agoBullshit. That quote came from Baum in a 1994 interview of Ehrlichman. Baum was writing a book about the war on drugs, so why did the quote only come out in 2016? Why not put it in the book? > "because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author." The worst lie I've ever heard. The quote is gold for a backroom discussion. Then Ehrlichman dies, and the quote comes out more than a decade later, when he can't dispute it; with zero corroboration except Baum, and no recording! (No recording for a book background interview of an influential US political actor?) The quote is reddit-catnip but only spreads because of low-integrity operators in the media. Golden rule: don't put words in people's mouths after they're dead.