Evening exa hug
No eezy, if anybody here is biased, its you.
If cannabis was some 'wonder plant' that does nothing bad, and will not damage you, not make you addicted, make you more fertile, save your life from house fires, get your cat out a tree and help your gran cross the road
why is it illegal in the first place>
Originally posted by Darth Sauron
Evening exa hugNo eezy, if anybody here is biased, its you.
If cannabis was some 'wonder plant' that does nothing bad, and will not damage you, not make you addicted, make you more fertile, save your life from house fires, get your cat out a tree and help your gran cross the roadwhy is it illegal in the first place>
quoting:
First of all, it's important to realize that there is no legitimate reason why marijuana is illegal. Both in the establishment of penalties for marijuana and the continuance of them, there has never been a single true compelling government interest for making marijuana illegal.
Most of the history of marijuana's criminalization has been based on lies. The actual reasons why marijuana is illegal are:
Racism
Fear
Protection of Corporate Profits
Yellow Journalism
Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
Personal Career Advancement and Greed
Also many of those who once prohibited cannabis were afraid cannabis would not fit into European traditions.
quoting
The Mexican Connection
In the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing's army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.
One of the "differences" seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them.
However, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)
Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). These laws tended to be specifically targeted against the Mexican-American population.
When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator's comment: "When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies." In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."
This is fun 😄
on to racism, quoting:
Anslinger was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity -- a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn't be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.
Anslinger immediately drew upon the themes of racism and violence to draw national attention to the problem he wanted to create. Some of his quotes regarding marijuana...
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
And he loved to pull out his own version of the "assassin" definition:
"In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'"
holy shit, that huge joint is back, hes outside, he cant get in...listen to him shouting
you white boy, get outta my pridelands mutha fugger!
Holy shit, look, its uncle sam! hes outside
I declare this drug illegal, because it is racist, and also because of mormons and mexico, and wyoming!
Wow, what a believable story, its almost like it was written by sombody high out of their mind!
Originally posted by Darth Sauron
holy shit, that huge joint is back, hes outside, he cant get in...listen to him shoutingyou white boy, get outta my pridelands mutha fugger!
Holy shit, look, its uncle sam! hes outside
[b]I declare this drug illegal, because it is racist, and also because of mormons and mexico, and wyoming!
Wow, what a believable story, its almost like it was written by sombody high out of their mind! [/B]
Not the drug is racist 😑 Americans were