Fun Fact: Marijuana Prohibition began in 1930 under Hoover. (Republican)
It was pitched in response to the influx of Mexican immigrants and the fears their arrival stoked in American homes, the media began speaking to those fears, painting the immigrants as disruptive and lazy due, in part, to their use of “marihuana.”
Almost 100 years later a wannabe president and party of deplorables is still pitching xenophobia. #Politics #420