Legal Pot or Jim Crow

[Rev. Rye]

. A soceity who bans pot looks to try and keep its citizens with sharp and acute minds. (Look at America's Industrial Age when the substance was first bann, look at China now)

Actually, Marijuana was only banned nationwide in 1937, well into the Great Depression, and shortly after the beginning of the Roosevelt Recession.

And, really, the more I look at the circumstances behind making marijuana illegal, the more I think it has less to do with "keeping citizens with sharp and acute minds" and more with keeping down the "other." In fact, it was used as a quick and easy way to get Mexicans in jail (seriously, why do you think it's most commonly known as "marijuana" these days?) Hell, since it was also commonly used by black jazz musicians (fun fact: one of Louis "What a Wonderful World" Armstrong's first great recordings was "Muggles," written as an ode to the stuff), it gave the authorities two minorities for the price of one to harass.