"I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish speaking residents. That’s why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish speaking persons, most of whom are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions."
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Letter from the Editor of the Alamosa, Colorado Daily Courier, 1936, via David F. Musto, The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 (Feb. 1972), Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1972;26(2):101-108.
Another fine example of the Drug War’s xenophobic/racist roots.
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