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Thank you for this reference. I had overlooked it. While this article confirms my assertion that whites were the majority of drug users, the drug of choice is
by argiopetech 2y ago
Thank you for this reference. I had overlooked it.
While this article confirms my assertion that whites were the majority of drug users, the drug of choice is stated to have been racially segregated (with whites preferring opiates).
Based on this, I'll accept (pending further research) that the southern bans on cocaine were racially motivated. I'd still consider the 1914 federal ban on a wider swath of drugs to be less so.
- mynameisvlad 2y agoYou really like going out of your way to pretend things aren’t racially motivated, don’t you? You spent two paragraphs just to end it with an apprehensive concession at best.
- jrflowers 2y agoI’m not sure why someone would pick the 1914 ban as being uniquely not racially influenced. That seems arbitrary and could mostly only be backed up by not reading about it. The main difference between the 1914 ban and previous actions was the degree of added emphasis put on caricatures of Chinese people. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/08/14/how-did-we-get-here https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/08/14/how-did-... https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,962287,00.html https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,962... https://web.archive.org/web/20080705050104/http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3042936.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080705050104/http://www.hoover... https://www.nytimes.com/1914/02/08/archives/negro-cocaine-fiends-are-a-new-southern-menace-murder-and-insanity.html https://www.nytimes.com/1914/02/08/archives/negro-cocaine-fi... https://archive.org/details/cu31924032583225 https://archive.org/details/cu31924032583225