How many people understand the US Constitution?

[fdd2blk]

Your reading comprehension sucks. I didn't say that was ok. I was saying that race issues are directly related to weed's criminality and therefore it's a topic open for discussion on a weed-based forum.

You need to learn to read and to understand what you read.

You have no authority over me.

 

[Joomby]

Weed was criminalized out of racial fears. And in the Deep South, they keep it illegal as a way to shake down blacks and latinos, for the most part.

not everything comes back to stopping blacks from being free.criminalization of weed is directly money and politics look up the history of hemp and Cotton and how Jacob Ford was the corrupt link to politics making weed illegal it's all about money

 

[DiogenesTheWiser]

not everything comes back to stopping blacks from being free.criminalization of weed is directly money and politics look up the history of hemp and Cotton and how Jacob Ford was the corrupt link to politics making weed illegal it's all about money

The racial aspects of temperance (alcohol prohibition) and weed prohibition goes back about 120 to 140 years ago when black and latino migrant workers in the Deep South toiled together in agricultural production. Mexicans and central Americans migrating into the U.S. back then brought with them their drug of choice -- cannabis. See Martin Lee's 2013 book, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana. He documents these racial fears that blacks rubbing elbows with latino migrant workers would soon take up pot smoking, which turned blacks into "hypersexualized beasts."

J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the Bureau of Investigation, routinely rounded up jazz artists, almost all of them were black, for smoking weed. He feared that blacks and weed use would inevitably lead to a communist takeover of the U.S. government.

Richard Nixon, who created the contemporary drug war with Elvis Presley's endorsement, considered pot smokers and black freedom struggle activists (as well as anti-war hippies) to be "scumbags," and his whole "law and order" rhetoric was designed to use fears of illegal drugs to round up black people and throw them in jail.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/our-drug-laws-have-always-been-racist-americas-ugly-history-prohibition-tool-oppress

Today, sentencing disparities are highly racialized. Non-whites convicted of pot possession or sale are given far lengthier prison sentences while many white offenders convicted of the same crimes are given rehab as a sentence and suspended sentences or probation.

https://www.aclu.org/feature/war-marijuana-black-and-white

It's easy to deny the racial implications associated with pot criminalization, but that's not the reality of the situation. Race is directly connected to pot's checkered history in the United States. To say otherwise is to be ignorant of the facts.

 

[DiogenesTheWiser]

You have no authority over me.

Again, reading comprehension. I didn't write that I have authority over you or anyone. Read, understand what you read before commenting!

 

[fdd2blk]

You need to learn to read and to understand what you read.

You have no authority over me.

Again, reading comprehension. I didn't write that I have authority over you or anyone. Read, understand what you read before commenting!

You have no authority over me.

In dumbass, can't understand terms, ... Stop telling me what to do.

 

[DiogenesTheWiser]

You have no authority over me.

In dumbass, can't understand terms, ... Stop telling me what to do.

So you don't think it'd be helpful to you to understand what you read? Ok, my bad. I'm corrected now.

 

[fdd2blk]

So you don't think it'd be helpful to you to understand what you read? Ok, my bad. I'm corrected now.

You didn't even understand your own words.

You have no authority over me. You have no right to tell me what to do.

 

[DiogenesTheWiser]

You didn't even understand your own words.

You have no authority over me. You have no right to tell me what to do.

If you don't read, then you'll be unable to understand the world around you.

 

[fdd2blk]

If you don't read, then you'll be unable to understand the world around you.

I read perfectly fine. It is you who is confused. So much so that you don't even realize it.

 

[DiogenesTheWiser]

I read perfectly fine. It is you who is confused. So much so that you don't even realize it.

Dude, I'm letting you know that if you don't read books and articles about the topics we cover on this forum, you'll never be able to understand the society around you.

You're the one who cannot accurately paraphrase a comment made by anyone on this site. You are the one who needs to read more so that you can learn what people are saying in their comments.

 

[fdd2blk]

Dude, I'm letting you know that if you don't read books and articles about the topics we cover on this forum, you'll never be able to understand the society around you.

You're the one who cannot accurately paraphrase a comment made by anyone on this site. You are the one who needs to read more so that you can learn what people are saying in their comments.

Says the guy who doesn't understand his own words.

 

[UncleBuck]

You have no authority over me.

you're right. only the law enforcement agents you keep in regular contact with do.

 

[Joomby]

The racial aspects of temperance (alcohol prohibition) and weed prohibition goes back about 120 to 140 years ago when black and latino migrant workers in the Deep South toiled together in agricultural production. Mexicans and central Americans migrating into the U.S. back then brought with them their drug of choice -- cannabis. See Martin Lee's 2013 book, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana. He documents these racial fears that blacks rubbing elbows with latino migrant workers would soon take up pot smoking, which turned blacks into "hypersexualized beasts."

J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the Bureau of Investigation, routinely rounded up jazz artists, almost all of them were black, for smoking weed. He feared that blacks and weed use would inevitably lead to a communist takeover of the U.S. government.

Richard Nixon, who created the contemporary drug war with Elvis Presley's endorsement, considered pot smokers and black freedom struggle activists (as well as anti-war hippies) to be "scumbags," and his whole "law and order" rhetoric was designed to use fears of illegal drugs to round up black people and throw them in jail.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/our-drug-laws-have-always-been-racist-americas-ugly-history-prohibition-tool-oppress

Today, sentencing disparities are highly racialized. Non-whites convicted of pot possession or sale are given far lengthier prison sentences while many white offenders convicted of the same crimes are given rehab as a sentence and suspended sentences or probation.

https://www.aclu.org/feature/war-marijuana-black-and-white

It's easy to deny the racial implications associated with pot criminalization, but that's not the reality of the situation. Race is directly connected to pot's checkered history in the United States. To say otherwise is to be ignorant of the facts.

Well there you go. Thank you I didn't realise it went that deep