Well, I’m a white woman who has smoked plenty of weed and I’ve had sex with negros and entertainers, so… I guess they were right?
Though there is an obvious profitt motive, the fear of the “others” has been a good way to scare American citizens into compliance. It was the Chinese with opium, and blacks and hispanics with weed.
Though I love how reasonable America is starting to become when it comes to weed, I still can’t help but be angry at the US - they were the ones who lead the way to prohibition, after all. The people in my home country, Finland, are very negative towards weed, despite how common it is among the young. The good thing is that we don’t go crazy with the convictions - for the possession (and selling small amounts) of most drugs, you only get small fines. Even if you’re convicted of a serious drug crime, the prison isn’t that bad here (I, for certain, am not afraid of going to prison)… I can only hope that Finland is eventually going to follow suit with America and Holland and Portugal, and eventually decriminalize weed.
