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plenty of white people were charged with growing cannabis. I don't know where you are getting that idea from.
by gosub100 3y ago
plenty of white people were charged with growing cannabis. I don't know where you are getting that idea from.
- JohnFen 3y agoIn the US, prohibition of marijuana was enacted for overtly racist reasons. Latinos were the concern.
- gosub100 3y agothen at some point was expanded to whites.
- JohnFen 3y agoIt always applied to whites and everyone else, of course. But back then, whites were not huge users of it.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoHippies. It was explicitly targeted at the anti-war, vaguely USSR-sympathetic left. Can't
- digging 3y agoI didn't say white people weren't included in political repression. The Nixon administration explicitly targeted cannabis-using white hippies.