Tiers in The SEC

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by Lucky SC

where you go to school by the way, i think i might have asked u this already. I feel like u said florida

Florida State... don't ever make that mistake again.

[33girl]

wow, didn't mean to make this go onto a huge tangent.

But I agree with EE-BO, coke use has gone WAY up - everywhere, not just in the south. I won't say it wasn't around at all when I was in school, but it's much more prevalent now from what I hear, and what I don't understand is where people at a school where most of the students are on financial aid are getting the money for it.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by UTLonghorn2012

Speaking of drugs, has anyone seen "Reefer Madness" from back in the twenties? Hillarious stuff.

But yeah the anti-drug movement in the US got started with the same temperence societies that the anti-alcohol movement did. However, race was a big factor. They did not want "foreign" drugs influencing their children, and they particularly did not want teenage girls to fall under the influence of "foreign" drug lords.

Thanks to having US History class with an ex-hippie, we learned these things in school!

That's not the complete history, though. That was the part of history that an ex-hippie found most compelling from a conflict rather than a consensus perspective.

There's plenty of info about the social and economic reasons behind the illegality of drugs and why alcohol went from being legal to illegal to legal. The -isms (racism, classism, Americentrism, etc.) don't capture it all. Capitalism is a big part of it, as well.

But lo and behold it's still illegal. So the rest is good for theoretical and policy debates with little expectation that there will be policy and legal changes that make drugs legal.