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netizen-936824 on Jan 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Experience with Modafinil

It was banned because people associated it with "scary black people"

netizen-936824 on Jan 25, 2022 [–]

I'm past the edit window so here's an example

https://www.nytimes.com/1914/02/08/archives/negro-cocaine-fi...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_in_the_United_States

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