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JohnFen
on Dec 5, 2023
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In the US, prohibition of marijuana was enacted for overtly racist reasons. Latinos were the concern.
gosub100
on Dec 5, 2023
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then at some point was expanded to whites.
JohnFen
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It always applied to whites and everyone else, of course. But back then, whites were not huge users of it.
red-iron-pine
on Dec 6, 2023
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Hippies. It was explicitly targeted at the anti-war, vaguely USSR-sympathetic left. Can't
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