The Ghost of RubangB on 08 November 2008
The white man's drugs argument is about cocaine. Cocaine and crack are the same exact thing. Rich white people use coke and poor black people use crack. They have different punishments. Coke is a slap on the wrist and a "be more careful next time whitey." Crack has serious punishment. Making sure coke and crack have the same penalties is actually one of Obama's goals mentioned at his web site.
Heroin is illegal because people are wusses and whine about how addictive it is, even though nicotine is at least as addictive.
Cannabis is illegal and named "marijuana" because it was a Mexican peoples' drug and we hated Mexicans. Also there were anti-hemp lobbyists that held that shit back like it was an electric car.
