I wouldn't make the sweeping generalization that all crimes are misguided attempts to single out a specific group of individuals. That said, there is well documented history confirming both pot and hemp were made illegal to keep the black man down. Welcome to America.
Indeed.... they're not fighting to legalize crack, heroin, cocaine, opium and the sort..... this is a specific fight for a specific substance, with specific reasons and justifications, with specific trends that were trends that existed since they first made this specific substance illegal.
It was always about race when it was first banned.... it's well documented during the time.
They made alcohol illegal and because so many of the white society fought back, made their own, or simply drank it anyways, they eventually realized they were creating more crimes and more danger for everyone and they couldn't continue to fight everybody, especially hard working white folk who pay their taxes.
But the minorities and weed?
Black people couldn't take a friggin dump in the same bathroom as white people in the 60's..... just imagine what it was like back when they banned marijuana and the mentality against black people at
that time. Blacks having a good time and possibly making their own money from an easily grown substance that the government couldn't figure out how to regulate, control, and tax??
I'm sure it wasn't easy for black people to make their way into a liquor store back then, let alone afford something decent to drink..... but they have weed and all they needed were seeds, dirt, water and sun.
Put two and two together and you begin to see that not only were the original reasons for banning marijuana a farce with baseless justifications, the propaganda used at the time to scare people into thinking marijuana was evil, dangerous and drive you insane, not to mention make you into an uncontrollable sex maniac who'll go out and kill people randomly and violate their bodies (look it up) was total BS, and the continued War on Drugs is just an extension of all that in order to maintain the fight that
"The Government is Always Right"
And the more years go by, the more people begin to realize just how dumb they look by continuing to maintain this front and clinging onto old propaganda which was proven to be lies and baseless by numerous studies over the years, especially in the last couple of decades.
Most of the war on any crime is a war on some sort of minority; either ethnic, social, or both. In general the so-called "underclass" has always been the greatest source of crime. In the US African-Americans have always had higher crime rates and imprisonment rates than other groups. There is nothing really new here except to place a racial slant on the crime rate.
Spouting off statistics doesn't tell anybody anything that really matters.
The so-called "Underclass" has always been the greatest source of crime...... ok.....
Why?
African Americans in the US have always had a higher crime rate then other groups...... ok........
Why??
Understanding that the Sun rises and sets each day is one thing....... knowing why it rises and sets each day tells a person much much more.
