incarnate

Either you mean incarcerate, or else it is one hell of a gateway

I believe originally, it was used to incarcerate Latin Americans, hence the naming of "Marihuana" and later, "Marijuana" to make it sound more Spanish.

It wasn't just race, it was Black People and anyone else that associated with them. If someone went against authority and smoked weed, they were a danger to authority.

It was a litmus test

But pretty fucking close for .ml account

Just gonna drop this quote form a Nixon aide here:

"You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did"

The war on drugs was a war on blacks and anti-Vietnam activists.