[Windsong]

In all your stupifying remarks concerning racism (how did THAT word get into the drug legalization debate?), might I ask if you consider homophobia to be a form of racism?

[Pahuanui]

In all your stupifying remarks concerning racism (how did THAT word get into the drug legalization debate?), might I ask if you consider homophobia to be a form of racism?

A. Even the most peripheral, cosmetic review of the history of prohibition movements and legislation in the US clearly shows the racism inherent to those behind them.
B. No, I don't consider homophobia to be a form of racism.

Do you consider a sprinkler system to be a form of automobile?

[dcwusmc]

RACISM gets into the picture because that was the initial reason for outlawing drugs... to control various segments of the population. Smokable opium, for example, was outlawed because the Chinese used it and lured white women into their dens of iniquity. THen, later, of course, all opiates. Cocaine... well that was Blacks' drug of choice, along with the Mexican population, IIRC. Then pot was nailed because black Jazz Musicians used it and then wanted to have sex with white women. Read the history of the drug laws in this country. It's amazing. It's not about drugs at all, but about CONTROL OVER THE LIVES OF OTHERS, evil and simple (the War on the Constitution, aka the war on drugs, is hardly PURE!)....