4 ms·

Yet Democrats don't come out against Draconian drug laws because...well, I don't know...let's go with bipartisanship.

by jaynos 13y ago

seiji 13y ago
Well, 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 ago
  For fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
  - seiji 13y ago
    Well, 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 ago
    Chinese-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 ago
    The Single Convention, pushed into the UN by American prohibitionists.
    - bananacurve 13y ago
      And signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
      - riffic 13y ago
        under 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?

Yet Democrats don't come out against Draconian drug laws because...well, I don't know...let's go with bipartisanship.

by jaynos 13y ago

Yet Democrats don't come out against Draconian drug laws because...well, I don't know...let's go with bipartisanship.

seiji 13y ago

Well, 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 ago
For fuck sake. What claptrap do you have to explain every other fucking country banning opium?
- seiji 13y ago
  Well, 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 ago
  Chinese-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 ago
  The Single Convention, pushed into the UN by American prohibitionists.
  - bananacurve 13y ago
    And signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
    - riffic 13y ago
      under 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?