Quote Originally Posted by 99SI
Pot was oringally made illegal, along with cocaine, morphine, and heroin because lawmakers were afraid of black people doing them. That's the bottom line. It was considered Ok for white people to use cocaine, morphine, weed, etc because they "could handle it" or were "smarter". There were urban legends coming out of the south after the civil war that groups of "crazed black people" who were high on cocaine and marijuana were raping/murdering white women and that the "black mind was not capable of handling such drugs". It's the same way with opium, it was because of racism against the Chinese immigrants who we worked to death on the railroads and gold mines out west. They were seen as "inferior" people and b/c they smoked opium/heroin they were evil.

yup yup! Heroin was easily purchasable at the corner store in the 20's, cocaine I don't know about, morphine was as legal as heroin, and marijuana was considered Indian peace tobacco and really wasn't in use in the colonies back in the 1800s at all (from what I've read, heard, over a couple years).

But close on why it was made illegal in certain states, Heroin and Cocaine weren't made illegal because of black men going crazy when on it, it was because they found out (which is obvious) that any man including whites can become crazy, stronger, etc while on those particular drugs and they out-lawed them. Cocaine was used on slave men to help them stay awake and work longer/harder but they obviously got hooked on it and started to act crazy when they couldn't get more.......

Most of that was from reading and the same special people saw on the History channel.

O and $350 an Oreo here for beasters, 5_bills for Heady's, $90 for an oreo of mid (actually some smokin mid lol)......Randomly they'll have some Northern lights, White Widow, and Sour Diesel....but they stay with the beasters and Heady's