Are you sure white supremacists are the problem?

[anatta]

I'm not saying that legalization would still involve illegal sales. I'm saying legalization allows for cartels to sell a product they already have a supply chain for.

The main appeal to continuing to sell drugs in a legal market for a cartel would be for laundering money they make in other still illicit industries like guns and human trafficking.

Oh. im thinking like weed it has to be registered and taxed, and numbers of dispensaries controlled by regs

[Pax Mongolica]

Oh. im thinking like weed it has to be registered and taxed, and numbers of dispensaries controlled by regs

Some states appear to be regulated enough to keep out cartel supplies, but others are a bit lax about it. It really should be governed by federal law.

[AProudLefty]

Opium was an "Asian problem" as well.

In 1914, the United States criminalized the recreational use of opium. From this
event developed over a one hundred year span the international War on Drugs. This
examination stems from the belief the War on Drugs fails as a policy aimed at addressing
public health and safety concerns. Rather, the War on Drugs fosters criminality that
presents an even greater threat to public health and safety. This examination seeks to
understand the historical framework of the international War on Drugs. Research found
the U.S. largely responsible in both philosophy, creation, and enforcement in instituting
international narcotic policy. An examination of U.S. motivations found racial prejudice a
causal factor that saw criminalization rather than less authoritarian forms of government
intervention utilized to combat the negative side effects of narcotic use. The prejudicial
treatment of Chinese-American immigrants in the late ninetieth century Western U.S. led
to the criminalization of the Chinese cultural habit of opium smoking. The progressive
criminalization of opium due to its perceived connection to Chinese-American
immigrants is emblematic of the American narcotics criminalization history. Through
opium criminalization, the U.S. progressively pushed and achieved near-total
international narcotic prohibition

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/h...UMENT-2019.pdf

[AProudLefty]

In a 1994 interview with Harper’s Magazine, Nixon’s counsel and Assistant to the
President on Domestic Affairs, John Ehrlichman, confirmed Nixon’s intended purpose to
use narcotics legislation as a means to target his opponents. In the interview Ehrlichman
stated,
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had
two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m
saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war
or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana
and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could
disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes,
break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening
news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.1

[AProudLefty]

Chapter II.
Opium and the Yellow Peril:
Anti-Chinese Public Sentiment and the Criminalization of Opium 1850 -1940
In 1914, landmark congressional legislation established the first federal effort to
control narcotics. The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act regulates and places a special tax on
opium and coca leaf along with their derivatives. Prior to the Harrison Act, highly
addictive narcotics such as cocaine and opium readily circulate, without federal
oversight, within the United States (US). In the early twentieth century, the majority of
American narcotic use stems from over the counter, non-prescription products available
in the commercial marketplace.21 Throughout the US, in retail stores and doctors’ offices
Americans can purchase patent protected consumer products, medicines, and herbal
remedies that contain highly addictive narcotics.22 Despite the reality of widespread
narcotics use, in the decades prior to the Harrison Act , the American public stigmatizes
narcotic use as a practice outside of mainstream Euro-American cultural values. Due to
racial prejudice, narcotic addiction becomes a problem that American society
increasingly associates primarily with non-white minorities. By the time of the Harrison
Act, opium abuse has an intrinsic connection to Chinese Americans.

[T. A. Gardner]

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Or...

These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.

On signing the civil rights act:

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years."

Talk about an old school Southern racist bigot of the worst stripe...

[Pax Mongolica]

Both China and Malaysia are pretty strict on drugs, and it's not racial for them.

American policy might have some racial baggage regarding drugs, but it doesn't take away from the negative influence they have on society in general.

[gemini104104]

Maybe this couple deserve statues.

Actually what would science have should these so-called uncivilized and disgusting supremacist savages, repukes and other deplorable so-called human creatures were to donate their brains to science or anything else of their bodily existence as a donor? The thought is unsettling at possibly creating a new generation of degenerates for society and civilization to be burdened and traumatized with.

[Pax Mongolica]

Actually what would science have should these so-called uncivilized and disgusting supremacist savages, repukes and other deplorable so-called human creatures were to donate their brains to science or anything else of their bodily existence as a donor? The thought is unsettling at possibly creating a new generation of degenerates for the society and civilization to be burdened with.

The South Side of Chicago is the sort of place that needs a Brazilian approach to crimefighting -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad#Brazil

East St. Louis could be cleared out fast as well.

[anonymoose]

1. Claiming that Google doesn't have news on this (that is a lie)
2. Singling out black men murdering someone to try to support that claim

3. Healthy diet.
4. Racist birds.

[AProudLefty]

3. Healthy diet.
4. Racist birds.

Fuck those racist birds. Build wire walls to keep them out! And throw newspapers at them!

[anonymoose]

Fuck those racist birds. Build wire walls to keep them out! And throw newspapers at them!

What are we to do about those racists eating healthy diets?

[AProudLefty]

What are we to do about those racists eating healthy diets?

Tell them to go to the greener pastures.

[anatta]

Some states appear to be regulated enough to keep out cartel supplies, but others are a bit lax about it. It really should be governed by federal law.

none of this will ever happen. the drug war is plugged into to much fed goervnment with vested bureaucratic capital

[Pax Mongolica]

none of this will ever happen. the drug war is plugged into to much fed goervnment with vested bureaucratic capital

I get the impression that the continued increase in states that have legalized pot will at least force the hand of the federal government on that substance.

I don't think heroin or meth will be legalized anytime soon though.