----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Loveless" 
Subject: Re: OT: rootbeer?




>>
>> 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).

> 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.
> 

Same patter, different skin colour.

William Robb

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