Toddler uses medical marijuana

[Avatard]

We have cannabinoid receptors in our brains. Hell, we have cannibinoids in our brains. Even if you've never touched the plant in any way in your whole life. The fact is, humans have co-existed with, and used this herb medicinally since the dawn of time. It's been used for centuries as medicine, fiber, food, and oil.

Prohibition is about money, and business. Not the "public good".

The person most responsible for marijuana being illegal in the US was a guy named Harry Anslinger. Harry was a High School dropout and a Railroad detective when he had the good fortune to marry the niece of one of the most prominent bankers in the country, Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon was also the Secretary of the Treasury and he appointed Harry Anslinger in 1930 to the newly created Bureau of Narcotics, which later became the office of the Drug Czar, which Harry held for 32 years.

Harry Anslinger was at first not interested in marijuana, stating that it was a minor annoyance compared to other drugs like heroin and morphine. However, in 1934 Harry did a complete about-face and began to tell lurid and unsubstantiated tales of marijuana causing people, especially dark colored people, to go crazy and either rape white women or kill white men and women. He was supported in these stories by wild reports in the Hearst newspapers, the genesis of yellow-journalism. Why the change in heart..?

In 1934 DuPont created a means of extracting paper from wood pulp and the primary competition in this industry was hemp. One of the primary investors in the Carnegie-Mellon Bank was DuPont, and the other was Hearst. By making marijuana illegal, they guaranteed that their system for making paper from wood pulp would be the only means of obtaining newsprint, and they would gain great wealth. All of the stories that Harry Anslinger told in order to get the first legislation passed, The Marijuana Tax Stamp Act, were later proved to be lies. In 1962 at age 70 Harry was retired, but his lies continue to live on.

The Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was a way to make marijuana illegal without going through the pesky steps of actual legislation (for which they feared they might not yet have enough support for, despite their efforts at propaganda, such as films like the one now known as "Reefer Madness").

Hemp, you see, as it turns out, makes over 4 TIMES AS MUCH as much paper pulp per acre, per year of land, as logging trees.

This is not the only time a few robber barons created a horrible prohibition in this country to protect their interests, however.

The prohibition of alcohol was created because a certain man named Henry Ford had created a car that ran on ethanol, and a certain cartel headed by John D. Rockefeller wanted the fuel of the day to be petroleum.

Needless to say, the prohibition of alcohol took hold, and Mr. Ford made his car run on Gasoline.

How was this done? How was this accomplished? Well, very similar propaganda tactics were used as with cannabis, and a lot materials were distributed to women's conservative church groups, which mobilized them against the "evils of alcohol", and ultimately all the fucking madness was only repealed when the gas stations were all already safely in place.

One should probably note that today the Internet has finally toppled the "empire of the printed page", and not surprisingly, at last this prohibition of cannabis is finally winding to a close, and being allowed to die with the industry that fabricated it.

It's medicine, it's harmless, it's rope. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a spliff, won't you?

[Avatard]

Dude, where's my core?

[Switch]

Brandee was no longer a credible source when she pronounced especially "Eck-speh-shully"

See also:
espresso pronounced "eXpresso"

ya dumb fucks.