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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Alcohol, caffeine and nicotine are legal because white folks use them
Message-ID: <650@scc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-May-86 01:02:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: scc.650
Posted: Fri May  9 01:02:06 1986
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Summary: Opium too

In article <275@lll-lcc.UUcp>, bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
> 
> Marijuana was made illegal because at the time it was outlawed
> ('30s), the main users were blacks and hispanics -- very few
> first-class white folks would have been affected, so they cracked
> down. Much of their propaganda said that it also made folks
> sex-crazed and murders etc etc to scare the majority of the
> population into supporting the measure.
> 
	In "Cerimonial Chemistry" Thomas Szaz makes this point.
He also points out that the reason Opium was made illegal was
because of intense racial hatred of the Chinese.   Early in this
century the labor unions hated the Chinese who were percieved
as taking away jobs from white people.    Opium offered them
some measure of relief from their existance, so it was taken
away.

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