In a message dated 5/8/2007 12:50:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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.
-- Scott Loveless =========== Hmmm, I am afraid this makes a sick sort of sense. I remember Mom and Dad, native Californians both, talking about opium dens. Not if they were still legal in their life times, but they might have been. Or just the memory of them, i.e. their parents' life times anyway. Lots of fears attached, racist and otherwise. Like Good-Girls-Gone-Wrong and White Slavery. Marnie aka Doe --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
