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whathehealth? wrote:
It's a plant.
Why....? Because the white males in charge of the U.S. government said so. They thought free high black men would go around raping white women.
Fear mongering. Just like white males (trump) do today about any race that isn't white and enters America.
Why....
The short answer is racism. At the turn of the 20th century, cannabis—as it was then commonly known in the United States—was a little-used drug among Americans. With the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, however, many Mexicans began moving to the United States, and they brought with them the tradition of smoking marihuana. Amid a growing fear of Mexican immigrants, hysterical claims about the drug began to circulate, such as allegations that it caused a “lust for blood.” In addition, the term cannabis was largely replaced by the Anglicized marijuana, which some speculated was done to promote the foreignness of the drug and thus stoke xenophobia. Around this time many states began passing laws to ban pot.
Current marijuana has a much higher level of THC than the weed that was used 20-30 years ago. It’s a drug and a stronger one, too.
You can make arguments about health benefits or risks associated with cannabis, you can make arguments about legalization, etc.
But when I see the number of marijuana enthusiasts who think that “it’s a plant” is a good argument, it looks as though they might be as addle-brained as any wet-brain chronic alcoholic. But of course it’s possible that they could have been that thick-headed long before picking up the bong, so …
As bad for your heart as cigarettes:
Some other drugs that are also plants:
coca (cocaine)
Papaver somniferum (opium) and it’s derivatives (heroin and other opiates)
tobacco (nicotine)
qat
foxglove (digitalis)
ayahuasca
payote
psilocybin
many others
whathehealth? wrote:
It's a plant.
So are opium poppies.
psychedelic mushrooms are plants, cocaine comes from a plant....
Because they don't know coffee is a drug.
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