"White People Cant Handle Opioids Because Of Genetics"

[HipChick]

Trying to figure out how this racist lawmaker comes up with this type of logic...

A Kansas lawmaker thinks marijuana should be illegal because he said black people are genetically unable to handle its effects.

State Rep. Steve Alford (R) spoke out on Saturday against legalizing pot using the type of racist “logic” commonly heard when “Reefer Madness” was considered a serious documentary.

“What you really need to do is go back in the ’30s, when they outlawed all types of drugs in Kansas [and] across the United States,” Alford said, according to the Garden City Telegram. “One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, was that the African-Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics and that.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-alford-kansas-marijuana-black-people_us_5a53e133e4b01e1a4b18a12b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

[ExciteBike66]

1. I mean, isn't this exactly what the Big "H" over in Germany in the 1930's was saying too?

And really, if black people were more susceptible to the effects of pot, wouldn't that just mean they got EVEN MORE MELLOW than white folks?

[BigmanPigman]

2. Chris Cuomo ran this story on CNN this AM.

He was being sarcastic since it is such a ridiculous theory.

[HipChick]

4. Overhead it, while working out this am..

I can't believe how they come up with this stuff, with no data, no evidence ..no nothing..

[lunasun]

6. Comes from the heart

[Nitram]

3. Don't forget "defects of character."

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[lunasun]

5. I was thinking of thier genetics and meth use but it could just be white people's

character makeup shall I say like Alford did, that makes them predisposed users, and then the genetics kick in on addiction and how they handle the drug high. Which is sad because it can't be changed that's just how it is .
Yeah that's the only answer