The "Waste of Tax Money" on Drugs

This country spends millions, and millions of dollars on the "War on Drugs". Is this "War" really necessary? I've done a lot of research and I was very surprised to see the facts on how these laws came into place.

The first drug law I could find was an 1875 San Francisco ordinance that outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This law was passed out of fear that Chinese men were luring white women into their dens and "associating" with them. It was followed by similar laws outlawing the trafficking of opium by anyone Chinese origin, and restrictions on the importation of smoking opium. The law targeted "smoking" opium because it was thought that the smoking of opium was mainly a Chinese custom. Basically, these laws were a way to legally target the Chinese.

Cocaine was outlawed because of the fears that superhuman "Negro Cocaine Fiends" would take large amounts of cocaine and then go on violent rampages, killing people and......

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