don't forget psychadelics had the same fate! made illegal becuase they had "corrosive effects on cultural values" (had to put hippies in jail for being too peaceful)

While I agree with most of what you said. The John Ehrlichman quote is pretty suspicious.

It was released in 2014, 20 years after the interview. Because allegedly, despite the intense claims and weirdness reported (Ehrlichman suddenly bursting out with this monologue while pushing the interviewer out the door), the interviewer completely forgot about it until rereading his notes 20 years later, while also trying to promote a new book about Nixon. You'd think when interviewing someone that influential, and having them drop a reveal like that would've made it into his book at the time.

But there has never been any corroboration from anyone else about Ehrlichman making these claims, his friends and family say he never said anything like that to them. And somehow, not a single other corroborater to this big conspiracy has come forward.

Ehrlichman was long dead when this claim was released, and thus unable to verify he said it. Most news sources wouldn't even report on it until buzzfeed spread it around, and comedians like 'Adam Ruins Everything' spread it as fact. Not hating on you, just hate disinformation. Nixon did so many fucked up things, yet somehow one bullshit quote by an author desperate for attention gets all the hype.

That was back in the early 19th century.

I think you mean 20th century. There was no jazz in the 1800s.

"Satanic music, jazz and swing" would be a badass album title.

Just lol @ the notion that smoking weed magically makes white women attracted to you, I can't believe people fell for that bullshit

Wouldn’t be surprised to find out that some Project 2025 types had their slimy tendrils in the fentanyl crisis

The Ehrlichman quotes are really hardcore.

But of course the anti-war protests were also inextricably tied up with civil rights protests happening at the same time.

With cannabis it’s always been a tool to break up ethnic communities. Grass was an excuse, strength and community was the target.

Devil's lettuce is my favoruite

Sticky icky

Interesting! What are some other examples of common American English terms inconspicuously being used to dehumanize people?

It’s baffling just how much language is used to dehumanise, other, and discriminate against people.

Yeah, such language sucks, of course, but since right now that connotation of marijuana, for example, seems to be lost - why the hell worry about it. There are worse things which are not in the language, but in the way "protected group" works in the heads of some homo sapiens specimens.

I've recently had my comment deleted for answering "Armenian Genocide was bad, but not even close to the Holocaust" with "Holocaust was bad, but not even close to the Armenian Genocide" and in the next sentence clarifying that for me they are on the same level, but people for whom one of these statements is acceptable are not people.

Pot, weed, grass, ganja, herb, trees, green, chronic, reefer, doobage, dagga, dank, tea, ...

marih-jeh-wanna

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, they on marijuana rapin' everybody out here

Filipinos!? Are you sure about that? My wife is from these and is horrified at the mere suggestion of it. She doesn't talk shit about people doing it, but having it around is a hard NO for her. She's even leery about me getting mack on medical.

Speaking broadly, Asians have a hard line stance against drugs, figured that was her thing. Maybe she's just worried about being an immigrant on the wrong side of the law?

And yes, they're the Mexicans of Asia.

Just call it grass. It’s got history and style…

Early 20th century here gets discounted because of the zero century so that's 1900 through say 1930. Marijuana and Mary Jane both used at the same time it's older than you're thinking when you read the article