[Conservative til I die]

IF drug use HAD NOT been a problem - would laws restricting drug use have materialized?

Yeah, too many "jigaboos" and "wetbacks" smoking the demon weed and playing their demon music and attracting our "white wimminz."

Some good reasons that drugs are illegal is manipulation, racism, and xenophobia.

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others." Harry Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics testifying to Congress in 1937.

[_Jim]

Some good reasons that drugs are illegal is manipulation, racism, and xenophobia.

How about something a little more grounded in reality: like DUIs, operation of any kind of powered equipment, and then fact that some of these compounds can really muck up the mind ...

(I don't know where in the hell you guys are getting this racism crap from either.)

[robertpaulsen]

"Yeah, too many "jigaboos" and "wetbacks" smoking the demon weed and playing their demon music and attracting our "white wimminz."

I couldn't find those reasons in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. IIRC, Congress listed different reasons.

When are you going to stop raising this strawman?