Oh yea i understand the thinking. It was IDIOTIC UNEDUCATED PARANOID DELUDED LIES spread by evangelical nut jobs that smoking pot created sex zombies and heroin addicts. I heard the bullshit claims myself in high school and in church. And people STILL BELIEVE IT!
Meet harry anslinger. The man who led the charge to outlaw pot on the fed level.
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”
“…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”
“Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”
“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
“Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”
“You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”
“Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”
That was the thinking that was behind it, thou they were fine with it being available to the minority areas because it would passify them but it was a drug for the minoritys and they did not want white folks to have it. Hey, I am one of those white folks by the way that realize drugs were allowed in to the inner cities to passify minorities while we rounded them up and shoved them in to small housing areas with a severe lack of available quality education, no decent employment opportunities, and we gave them just enough food to keep them from starvation and all the while they were told they were being helped and not greatly harmed?
It came down to politicians wanting the minority vote and a certain party that spear headed that "Great Society" decided to spear head the charge to give minorities the right to vote, a right they as Americans should have always had, but spear head the right to vote and they will like sheep vote for us then go away until we need their vote again? Minorities have been used by the very people they trust, sad but true. Weed at the time and later on harder drugs like heroin were used to passify them, to keep them calm until they were needed again to vote. They actually believed they could contain the drugs to the minority areas and the white folks would want nothing outside of booze, as we see, they were very wrong.
Look, I believe everyone should be treated equally, no matter the color of their skin, their religious preference, sexual preference, ect. I do not believe in making up for sins of the past by tilting the scales in an opposite direction, equal has to start at some point and you do not get to equal by tilting the scales in the opposite direction for a while. We as a people should be looking forward rather than consistently looking backwards 2 wrongs will never equal a right.
What we should be doing is addressing the injustice of the awful educational opportunities in the inner cities, the first rung on the ladder upward is freedoms but the second has to be education, and the 3rd employment opportunity. How is it that politicians talk about wanting to solve the problem of education and specifically the inner cities but pander to the unions that made it so hard to fire a bad teacher? How is it we spend so much money to fix the problems but the inner city schools do not have access to computers for their students? How is it that we lock up inner city young men for dealing drugs when they can not find other ways to earn a decent income? We take them from being ameture criminals and we make them experienced seasoned criminals by housing them on our dime beside more season criminals?
We should ALL value our own personal freedoms above anything else and those should never be given away for the sake of anything, no matter how much spin is used to convince you.