WTH(ell) does any of this have to do with rootbeer? :-)
Cheers, Dave On 5/10/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: > > Scott Loveless > > 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. > Recreational use of marijuana didn't really exist in the US until about > 1910 when it was introduced by Mexicans fleeing the Mexican Revolution. > Prior to that, it's only real use was hemp to make rope. > > The drug prohibitions have the same roots as the alcohol prohibition; > religious chauvanism. Some damn preacher got up on his high horse and > decided you shouldn't do something because it was enjoyable, therefore > it had to be a sin. Racism was involved too, against blacks, orientals > and latinos (depending on which was the despised minority in a given > location). > > It didn't get much traction until WWI, when abstention and prohibition > was promoted as a part of the war effort. It's also tied in with > Attorney General Palmer and the Red Scare of 1917 - 1920, culminating in > the appointment of J. Edgar Hoover to lead the fledgling FBI (created in > 1908). > > Drug use was the vice of anarchists, bolsheviks and other UN-American > types like poor people and factory workers who thought unions might be a > good idea. > > Marijuana gets added in during prohibition because it became a > substitute for booze. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
