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not war on (some) drugs, war on minorities
February 9, 2009
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It's because it's not a war on (some) drugs, it's a war on minorities, and the easiest way to recoup our losses from the north winning the civil war is to stuff our prisons to replace slave labor with prison labor. Outlawing substances that minorities used instead of drinking the white man's alcohol. Read tinyurl.com/1mn and tinyurl.com/potconviction for more info/order 'The Marijuana Conviction' from half.com).
Check out "Hemp for Victory" too, published by the USDA in 1942 begging farmers to grow hemp 'for the war.'