The War on Drugs, You Know?

When cocaine gets to be perceived with deviant groups, and especially with blacks in the south, that's when you get cocaine prohibitions. And ditto with canabas, right? You know, it wasn't a big deal. But when it gets linked in the popular imagination with mexican americans, mexican migrants in the southwest, in the second and third decades of the twentieth century, that'swhen you have some kind of early stages of the war on drugs going on. O beni, penalties for selling or for possessing, or for romat, you know, for both. By the late 19 eighties, i mean, it is the number one, 50