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#WarOnDrugs

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Karl Theodor

How a #racist #hatemonger #masterminded America’s #WaronDrugs
#HarryAnslinger conflated #drug use, #race, and #music to #criminalize #nonwhiteness and create a #prisonindustrialcomplex

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In this edition of #Cannabis #Conversations, Dr. #EthanRusso discusses clinical #endocannabinoiddeficiency and ways to target the #endocannabinoidsystem for #therapeutic benefit with Martin A. Lee, Co-Founder of Project #CBD. youtube.com/redirect?event=vid

medium.com/timeline/harry-ansl

05.05.2025 ... Those who first spread its use were musicians. They brought the habit northward with the surge of “hot” music demanding players of exceptional ability, especially in improvisation. Along the Mexican border and in southern seaport cities it had long been known that the drug has a strangely exhilarating effect upon the musical sensibilities. The musician who uses it finds that the musical beat seemingly comes to him quite slowly, thus allowing him to interpolate improvised notes with comparative ease. He does not realize that he is tapping the keys with a furious speed impossible for one in a normal state. Anslinger found several cases where people had committed violent offenses purportedly while high, and presented them to Congress. The case that seemed to seal the deal was that of Victor Licata, a young Italian man who had hacked his family to death. Anslinger consulted 30 doctors to confirm his claim that weed was linked to violent crime. Of those, 29 said there was no connection, so he peddled the message of the one dissenting doctor to anyone who would listen. Anslinger’s appeal to fear appeared to be working. ... https://medium.com/timeline/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
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Mx. Kit O'Connell — Hire me!

Worth noting that Austin City Council has ordered our police to deprioritize cannabis arrests, a policy which I don't believe would be directly affected by this court decision overturning the decriminalization ordinance.

Texas court blocks #Austin marijuana law | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
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Cannabis plants are pictured at Greenbelt Botanicals on Nov. 10, 2021. Michael Minasi/KUT
KUT · Texas court blocks Austin law that decriminalized small amounts of marijuanaBy Katy McAfee
#WarOnDrugs#Texas#politics
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Texas Observer

“I want bad actors removed from this space, but you don’t clean up a room by setting it on fire.”

A hemp industry worth as much as $4B is in the line if #Texas moves forward with its planned ban on THC products ...
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The Texas Observer · Texas House Weighs How to Get Harsh on HempIndustry advocates warn against bills that would ban or otherwise restrict many legal THC products.
#politics#USpol#TXlege
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Texas Observer

“We’re trying to straddle a recreational use versus a medicinal use. Drawing the lines will be difficult, because we’ve been doing this for almost three hours, and I’m still not sure what we’re talking about.” texasobserver.org/advocates-sp

The Texas Observer · Texas House Weighs How to Get Harsh on HempIndustry advocates warn against bills that would ban or otherwise restrict many legal THC products.
#TXlege#Texas#cannabis
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Texas Observer

In #books: New federal drug prohibition laws were reshaping the societal and penal landscape. It’s against this backdrop that Texans took a central role in the attempt to balance punishment with treatment for the growing percentage of the U.S. population addicted to drugs.
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The Texas Observer · Inside Fort Worth's Narcotic Farm ExperimentRehab on the Range tells the story of Texas’ role in one of the largest federal forays into drug treatment.
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