Reefer Madness: The Racist Origins of Marijuana Prohibition
<p>You see, marijuana wasn’t made illegal because a group of scientists sat down and decided smoking weed was bad for you. It didn’t come about because some preening public figures wanted people to think they occupied a moral high ground. It’s not even the result of power-hungry politicians looking to out-posture their opponents.</p>
<p>The truth is, cannabis was criminalized largely because one man felt it threatened a rigid, racially-stratified social order that kept him and his associates at the very top.</p>
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