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Originally Posted by revcyanide
honestly it's arguments from people like you that immediately make people of any intelligence disregard legalization as stoners just wanting to get high.
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It was once associated with oppressed ethnic groups. used as slander to make the public scared of marijuana.
"The intense anti-marijuana movement of the 1930s dovetailed nicely with the intense anti-Chicano movement of the 1930s. Marijuana was associated with Mexican Americans, and a ban on marijuana was seen as a way of discouraging Mexican-American subcultures from developing."
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
"Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy"
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"Two
Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from
syphilis."
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sorry if my previous response was miss-understood. i hope this clears up what i was talking about....
i think its crap that its considered such a deadly thing, when alcohol is much more mind altering, and has killed many more people.
if it weren't for propaganda it would still be legal is what i was getting at.