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US drug laws are actually just about keeping people who may vote for democrats out of the voting pool wrapped around a layer of public health stigma and "scary
by seiji 13y ago
US drug laws are actually just about keeping people who may vote for democrats out of the voting pool wrapped around a layer of public health stigma and "scary minorities terrorizing white people" images.
- jaynos 13y agoYet Democrats don't come out against Draconian drug laws because...well, I don't know...let's go with bipartisanship.
- seiji 13y agoWell, all the drug laws started in the early 1900s and their rationale is forgotten unless you find a documentary or do research somewhere. For example, the reason opium dens were outlawed in San Francisco is because they got very popular with the chinese laborers and that upset the white establishment. So, the white lawmakers got together and made a campaign about "chinese men on drugs are stealing your white women." Soon after, SF outlawed opium dens to punish the chinese workers for, well, the falsely manufactured epidemic of all upper class white women falling in love with chinese railroad workers and leaving their white husbands in shame. The ruling class has a mind of continuance and more restriction, not clearing out the cruft from long ago.
- bananacurve 13y agoFor fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
- seiji 13y agoWell, if 90% of your population is high and unproductive, that makes you ripe for invasion. There's a difference between fixing a problem collapsing society and targeting groups to punish them for your own gain. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_in_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/his...
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoChinese-patronized opium dens were banned. Tincture of laudanum (opium rum) was still available at every drug store. The history of drug prohibition is a process of cracking down on one minority group after another in order to get votes. Opium: chinks. Marijuana: niggers. LSD: smelly hippy sluts. Methamphetamine: poor white trash/wiggers. Visible booze bottles: bums.
- riffic 13y agoThe Single Convention, pushed into the UN by American prohibitionists.
- bananacurve 13y agoAnd signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
- riffic 13y agounder duress with the likelihood of the withdrawal of aid, trade, or unilateral sanctions. You do realize the united states is a permanent member of the security council?
- mistercow 13y agoThey're also about providing government kickbacks and cheap slave labor to the prison-industrial complex. Not to mention the free stuff for police departments seized from citizens. There are a lot of people who benefit from the war on drugs, who also share responsibility for perpetuating it.
- mason240 13y agoDo you actually believe that or are you a troll?