That marijuana causes white women to seek relationships with *****es, entertainers and any others? SERIOUSLY?
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A major light bulb moment happening here for me.
So with the above mentioned and adding the fact that I grow , goodness me, I probably am a drug dealer also. Right?
And heaven forbid if I were to joke around about such topics I must be really of immoral character.
Gosh, I admit to being gullible and naive but I didnt quite understand the picture I was painting of myself with this type of thinking.
Wow!
I guess I should chalk this up to a lesson learned.
Thats mind boggling to say the least.
Sad really. :upset:
:shrug:
It is indeed very sad, but that's the unvarnished history of cannabis perception and treatment in this country.
They didn't even demonize
alcohol that badly during Prohibition.
Documented use of cannabis in a legal sense goes back to around 7,000 BC. In fact, it was legally
required to be grown in the U.S. back in the early 1600's in Jamestown.
It was only with the influx of Mexican workers into the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century that things began to change. The dislike of "foreigners" led to laws against weed usage and growing.
William Randolph Hearst also played a major role in the prohibition of cannabis. He had lost hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland to Pancho Villa, his paper production was threatened by hemp, and the yellow journalism stories of Mexicans killing each other when high sold newspapers. He became a staunch ally of Anslinger.
“By the tons it is coming into this country – the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms.... Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters.”
This toxic duo was joined by Dupont, the pharmaceutical companies and the tobacco industry, each having their own axes to grind.
As a result, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was rammed through Congress without a single scientific study and began their quest to eliminate cannabis.
But that wasn't the end of it - not by a long shot.
In the '50's the FBN linked marijuana usage to heroin usage - the "stepping-stone" theory. Add in the Cold War paranoia (China was sending heroin to the U.S. to destroy our souls) and you had a real witch's brew. The Boggs Act in 1951 lumped cannabis together with heroin and cocaine. Again, no scientific studies offered.
That's just a
short version of the downfall of cannabis in the U.S.
