At the turn of the century, shortly before cocaine's illegalization, claims were made that most attacks by blacks on whites were the results of a "coke-crazed Negro brain." This propaganda is still widely spread and believed.
During the mid-1930's, a "new" drug – marihuana – was reportedly responsible for the increase of the most hideously violent crimes: slaughter and cruel mutilations done in cold blood. In fact, the word marijuana (previously unknown) hails from Mexican slang and was associated with lazy peasants in seedy districts occupied by non-whites.
Thus prohibition laws have their origins not in health concern, but in lies and ignorant racial prejudices. Even if written, as we are told, to protect ALL users from the hazards of these "deadly drugs," how is prison a safer alternative? One can be beaten, stabbed, raped and/or killed and still acquire drugs while imprisoned! (Recently three Death Row inmates in Mecklinburg, VA, have fatally overdosed on cocaine and heroin.)
Based on this, we could turn our entire country into a prison and still not keep drugs out or stop drug use!
REPEAL PROHIBITION!!
October 1994
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