I've also heard a reason for marijuana bans was due to major wood companies fearing the hemp plant running them out of business so they were able to ban the hemp plant by criticizing the effects of marijuana
The only conspiracy that might be true. Regardless cocaine is extremely dangerous, there is absolutely no reason to legalize it. Almost every country on Earth has banned it, including China and Iran. Is there some sort of racist conspiracy in those countries as well?
Abnormal Wrench So what about the war on drugs in China, the Philippines, Mexico, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the entire world? Is there a racist conspiracy behind all these countries drug laws? I'd like you to explain that.
This is actually the best argument I've heard for legalizing hard drugs. I'm still not sure if I would support it, but it at least gives me something to think about.
They also banned opium dens because of productivity. The average lazy Chinamen's work week plummeted to just under 125 hours from their peak of over 140 because of opium. The railroads weren't just going to build themselves, we had whiskey to transport!
Seriously, aren't you black? My Great grandparents probably came illegally around the same time from Italy to NY. 120 years later...all my family still lives in NY!
Are you serious about the foreman operation? You know I'm politically incorrect by now so I'm not offended by your ancestors. Shit one of mine was a mafia kingpin and professional hitman in the 50s till the Carlos Gambino ended all my future potential Italian perks from a life of NYC luxury. Nope, now I'm freezing upstate struggling like some damn minority! Thanks Gambino crime family!
GG Bianco theres no such thing as politcal corectnes thats just some shit right wingers made up in the 1990s during clintons 2nd office run it caught on as popular term to insult the left, it never existed but yea i m serious my family settle in sw missouri germans nad non english was never considered really white by protestants now they kind of have to for votes
1:20 I find it amusing that it was Primarily the UK, but also the US(and other countries) who were shipping Opium into China in the mid 19th Century. When they tried to ban it the UK declared war to force them to buy it. (I wont go into the reasons, but it was pure economics) So the fact that 50-100 years later, there were internal social problems in the US caused by Opium users who had traveled from China is really poetic
Reefer Madness! 1930's Anti Marijuana Propaganda movie. This film was a cult midnite movie back in the Seventies and Eighties. When people used to go Friday night cult movies.
That Opium Den Picture reminds me of the Male-Only Bars in Europe. Probably more fighting in the Alcohol Dens. We knew it wasn’t based on : Public Safety, since people were not held criminally liable for DRUNKEN DRIVING until-the 1970’s?? Airline Pilots used to go from Airport Bar to Cockpits in the, 1980’s?! Wow! Now you can’t get a pain pill unless you’re, what, in separate pieces?
and the land of the "free" although we are not even in top 20 anymore and we have so much hate ,racism ,and problems in our country that violate our rights . *deep breath* and the home of the brave
Mr9Guns Lol, yep including China, Iran, and North Korea. The US has some great propaganda like "cocaine lowers life expectancy, and meth rots your teeth." Everyone bought into it man.
Well, I agree with all of this, as usual; with one reservation. I do know a large part of the harshness of crack laws was motivated by racism. However, I think there were other factors involved. I am not an expert, and maybe I'm actually just indoctrinated or otherwise being misled. But when coke is cooked down to crack, doesn't it become, like, a hell of a lot more dangerous? Drug laws are weird in general, though. I just can't understand the mentality, of looking at other people and saying, "Not only do I not like the things you do, I'm actually going to make laws to prevent you from doing them. I *care* about how you have sex. Because I'm religious. God tells me to take a perverted interest in other people's most private and intimate aspects of their lives." And why are there so many uptight, sexually repressed white people? No you can't get married because my pretend beliefs say it's icky. But wait, the bible admonishes against eating shrimp 8 times. It only mentions no homo twice. Why arbitrarily pick one random idiotic rule out of a book of obvious nonsense and attempt to force every one to abide by it? It's just such an obvious, pathetic attempt to control other people's lives. They know their wives don't love them anymore. They know they're going bald, and will lose their eyes and teeth and die. They know there is nothing when they die. They have no control over their own anal retentive waste of a life, and so in desperation will fight tooth and nail to gain some control over yours. I hate republicans.
Look I've been there and read the paper work so I know what I'm talking about...weed should be legalised ..The rest are too addictive to allow for free purchase ...its my opinion
There is lots of misleading information. The Drug laws has nothing to do with racism. My Question here. Whom requested these laws and harsh penalties? Was it the various community leaders from the community that was most affected whom requested these harsh drug laws? Why did they request and petition both State and Federal government to clamp down on drug use? Are the community leaders RACIST for targeting the drugs their own community uses?
I'm going to have to disagree with you. I think these drugs should be illegal, excluding marijuana. The problem is the way we treat drug addiction, instead of criminalizing people we should help them.
This sounds like complete rubbish to me. It wasn't based on racism, some people may have used race as one example or excuse but it was mostly based on religion, the temperance movement and corporate drug company interests. Similar laws were made in other western countries that didn't have minorities like the US. In the US, 1914 was around the time of prohibition of alcohol too, In the early 20th century there was a big temperance movement that wanted to ban all drugs and alcohol, for everybody, and they succeeded for a while. This was a time when most people were religious. To suggest it was ONLY done because of immigrants or because they were worried for the girls is ridiculous. Females in this age did not go out by themselves mostly and were under the control of their fathers, Then they married young and were property of men.. This period was also not that long after the Opium wars, and China banning opium because it had caused havoc in Chinese society. There were other contributing factors like the birth of the pharmaceutical industry, who lobbied for control of the drug industry, even alcohol companies lobbied against drugs because they wanted to sell more liquor. I'm a liberal but sometimes this channel goes too fox news for me.
the temperance movement and the effort to criminalize the heroin ,cocaine and marijuana were separate from one another other countries banned these drugs but their motivation was to slow the use and addiction to these drugs the states motivation was to keep the races from cavorting the bans were not to prevent girls from cavorting with minorities they were made to prevent white females of all ages from cavorting with minorities
