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Re:How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is ... by sliverstorm on Sunday October 19, 2014 @07:57PM (#8480071)
Cannabis prohibition, on the other hand, has historically been targeted explicitly at minorities

Do you have a "when" in mind there? Cannabis has a colorful history in the USA, and it does not seem like its entire history has been centered on "suppressing the Other". To my knowledge it was originally regulated as a part of the opium/narcotics laws that swept the world in the early 1900's.

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Re:How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is ... by Avshalom on Sunday October 19, 2014 @09:30PM (#8480329)
Opium laws were targeted at the Chinese.
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Re:How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is ... by sliverstorm on Monday October 20, 2014 @02:10PM (#8483589)
The opium laws were targeted at shutting down the global opium trade, and I believe they were initiated by China. It's my impression that marijuana just got "caught up in" the change.
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