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 worse, and has killed many more people. if it weren't for propaganda, it would still be legal.
(2009 -
annual causes of death by cause - FDA)
Cause of death1
Number
All causes 2,436,652
Cardiovascular diseases 779,367 Malignant neoplasms 568,668 Drug induced2 37,485 Suicide 36,547 Motor vehicle accidents 36,284 Septicemia (infections) 35,587 by Firearms 31,224 Accidental poisoning 30,504 Alcohol induced 23,199 Homicide 16,591 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 9,424 Viral hepatitis 7,652 Cannabis (Marijuana) 0
2 Drug induced include both legal and illicit drugs.