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Subject: Re: Summer's over, time to discuss marijuana legalisation

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Astrid

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Date Posted: 12:21:23 09/08/02 Sun
In reply to: M23 's message, "Re: Summer's over, time to discuss marijuana legalisation" on 18:22:30 09/07/02 Sat

>people who abuse the illegal ones...though apparently
>in my area at least methadone clinics have become
>normal in suburbia...lol, gee I guess we now have
>middle class folks who have "made it" yet are using a
>drug which historically was a ghetto drug....hmmm?!

Actually, reading about drug history is really fascinating. For example, Coke used to contain cocaine. Cocaine was routinely used by the middle and upper class, just as people take ibuprofen today. It wasn't until it became associated with blacks ("cocaine-crazed Negroes") that it was criminalised.

Opium was associated with the Chinese. And marijuana was the demon drug of the Mexican.

Astrid

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