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Thomasina Copenhaver is a naturopathic doctor and registered nurse with over 30 years experience in the healthcare profession. Her passion is writing, researching, and empowering all humans with knowledge of healing at the cellular level; to enable them to make educated and informed choices regarding their health.
I think the war on pot was multi-faceted that came together at key times. There were many racist arguments (it wasn't inherently racist but associating blacks with pot was a marketing spin for both) that contributed to the hysteria around it. (add to that associating it with 'rock' or non-wholesome(sic) music and dancing if you go far enough back). It was mostly built around this being common in jazz clubs in Detroit, Harlem and Chicago so 'society whites' (usually those with political clout) associated it with everything they tried to push away from that culture (music, dancing, clubs, etc). But that's just one aspect of what became a ridiculous war- in many ways it was just an excuse to grow government. You can't have people making decisions over themselves and you have to find some reason/excuse to lock up those you don't like so they aren't in your neighborhood.The cold war was also a big contributor. Much of the marijuana product that came into the country came from central and south America, nations that were being run or attempted to be taken over by Soviet-friendly regimes- and the WOD was an attempt to starve them out.