The Racist Origins of The War on Drugs

Louis O’Neill
8 min readJun 3, 2019

This article was originally posted on The Green Fund — Australia’s preeminent source of cannabis information.

Recreational marijuana is now legal in 11 states, and medical marijuana is legal in 33. Denver has just passed a referendum to decriminalize magic mushrooms.

It seems the War on Drugs is finally coming to an end. And yet, there isn’t anarchy. There isn’t chaos. In…

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Louis O’Neill

Hello! My name is Louis. I write about the growing cannabis industry, politics, religion, and philosophy. Co-founder of Australians.news