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Appropriate? No.
Fair? No.

To quote John Ehrlichman:
"We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Legal? I'm a long standing contributor to NORML. But my opinion and your opinion mean jack. I highly doubt that drug law will change under the Trump administration, and the courts have shown no tendency to strike down such laws.

[QUOTE="Parker Schreiber, post: 9457533, member: 76060"] Appropriate? No. Fair? No. To quote John Ehrlichman: "We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” Legal? I'm a long standing contributor to NORML. But my opinion and your opinion mean jack. I highly doubt that drug law will change under the Trump administration, and the courts have shown no tendency to strike down such laws. [/QUOTE]

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