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Originally Posted by The_wall
There were many reasons for the current drug laws we have, some have been mentioned already in this thread. Marijuana was also made illegal because those scary dark skinned mexicans smoked it and this was a good excuse to arrest them. Orientals used opium a lot, those guys didn't look quite european enough. So racism was a big part of it.
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Bingo.
That's the version I learned in History of Narcotics from the crim/soc perspective.
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