Rachel does not know this

[nadinbrzezinski]

but Mexican Press have been recording quite crazy things for decades now.

What is a "new normal" is cops arresting a corrupt Captain... yes I can read rank devices. That don't happen... oh ever, or at least I don't remember that.

Now the cops better hope the evidence is on their side... good order and discipline comes to mind.

[MadMaddie]

1. That story only touches the real war that is going on in Mexico

The Government has lost control over major portions of Mexico to drug lords. Norman Goldman was reading the U.S report that says these gangs are based in (I believe the number is over 250 towns and cities in the U.S). It is inevitable that it will get worse, when American police start getting attacked by these gangs maybe the country will reevaluate this fake "war on drugs" and get rid of one of Reagans ever lasting legacies.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Oh absolutely

and Mexico is now considering... legalization, with a slew of other systemic reforms....

Let's just say Mexico will lead the way to the end of this insanity... but in the US, we will need a few summers of hell... before the WEED will kill you crowd will get it. It will kill you, in the cross fire.

[MadMaddie]

3. I believe the only reason that pot is not legal is the cigeratte

industry has not found a way for it to be profittable. I am pretty sure the tobacco lobby is behind keeping pot illegal.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Actually it is race based

but that is another matter.

[postulater]

5. Race based? Like the Hippie race?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. No, African American \ Hispanic

the fear of weed was enacted on race back in the day. And some of the don't use week propaganda are based on dog whistles with racism... embedded in them

Here

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

[JonLP24]

9. Not sure

The first Federal Law regarding Cannabis was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 signed by FDR which was passed largely due to exaggerated and false claims such as this one:



That wasn't the problem with the law though. It levied a tax if you were found possessing, selling, or manufacturing Cannabis. You had to have cannabis to get the tax stamp. You couldn't get a tax tamp if you had cannabis. Therefore it violated the 5th amendment against self-incrimination.

However I do believe just based on who Leary is led to the creation of the war on drugs by Nixon. Timothy Leary led the case against the Government to have the act repealed in 1967 so for a brief period in time cannabis was legal. Leary as a professor and activist encouraged drug use and was seen as a dangerous figure by the Nixon administration. I do believe the hippy subculture in general scared a lot of people into supporting this and the overall drug laws which were passed in opposition of medical research like MDMA for example.

In conclusion it is unfounded fears that lead to it being illegal both times. They used race as a factor in all drug legal issues. For example, FDR appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as Opium Commission of the United States. In this position he made claims such as "cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes of the South and other sections of the country," and ""one of the most unfortunate phases of smoking opium in this country is the large number of women who have become involved and were living as common-law wives or cohabiting with Chinese in the Chinatowns of our various cities". Right or wrong. These are bad justifications to make these type of drugs illegal and they were used for cannabis throughout history. His actions were instrumental in getting the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act passed and signed. Despite his last name the act was proposed by Francis Harrison, a Congressional Rep.

[MadMaddie]

6. I could see that in the fake Drug War

I believe that was the sole purpose of the drug war.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. This goes well before Nixon was a twinkle in his mother's eyes

or perhaps just a twinkle... and to 1911