Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us
by rayiner on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:37PM
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The united States was very violent in the early 20th century and many blamed cocaine.
Re:Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us
by vezzy-fnord on Sunday December 13, 2015 @07:48PM
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It certainly was a tumultuous period, but what reliable evidence is there of cocaine being a major causal factor? The USA was plagued by lots of labor-related violence, race rioting and organized crime (peaking during Prohibition, of course), but was cocaine ever anything more than a scapegoat?
Many hard drugs (including cocaine and heroin) were legal in the United States prior to the 1920s.
To the best of my knowledge, there was no massive social breakdown as a result.
The ultimate irony is that a major motivation for the criminalization of cocaine was, for poor rural whites, a fear that drugged up blacks would start raping white women. [1] Needless to say, this did not materialize and there is no reason it will if we lift the ban.
[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/why-we-too...