Adam Maas wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> In a message dated 5/8/2007 6:54:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> "Everything not prohibited is mandatory!" The only reason drugs were >> made illegal in the US is because good old J Edgar Hoover blackmailed >> them into making them illegal so he would not have to disband the FBI >> when prohibition was ended. Orwell had no imagination. >> >> >> ========== >> Think that's it? I've often wondered by whom and when some drugs were made >> illegal. Since many like the cocaine in coke, opium in laudanum, etc. were >> legal for a long, long time. >> >> Marnie aka Doe >> >> >> > > The banning of Marijuana is at least indirectly related to racism (it > was seen as a 'Negro Vice' in the first half of the 20th century). > > Some are still legal from prescription sources (cocaine is used > occasionally for medicine, Morphine is actually made from opium). > > -Adam > > > I read somewhere (can't remember where right now) that drug laws in the US actually got their start in California as a ban on either opium or opium dens. The laws were designed to target Chinese immigrants.
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