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Marijuana is illegal because of its effect on the " DEGENERATE RACES"

heartbone.com — HISTORY LESSON. HARRY J. ANSLINGER "The Father of the Drug War" Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics 1930-1962 "...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races." specifically " Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music....."

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  • SeethisPass, on 10/24/2007, -10/+99
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    • wtfpwned98, on 10/23/2007, -2/+20Welcome to the frustration of realizing that reporters see stuff like this all the time, but they never make a big deal out of it, because that wouldn't be cool...they're biased toward the "scoop"...stories like this are for historians.
      • azAZ09, on 10/20/2007, -0/+7No, you're wrong. Reporters don't report on this because this isn't "news", not because they are under pressure for the next scoop. This isn't news for stoners, or legalization supporters. Those who were part of the subculture four and twenty years ago knew about Anslinger. His craziness was even well documented in the 1999 film documentary-- “Grass”.
        While this information may be obscure and not widely disseminated to the general public, it is not unknown. Racism was only one angles of attack he used in an irrational campaign to support prohibition.
        While this is a great discussion topic--possibly even worthy of a paper or high times magazine article, “news to you” and “news” are two different ideas.
        • wtfpwned98, on 10/21/2007, -0/+1Agreed, it isn't news. It also isn't a scoop. How was I wrong? The frustration I spoke of goes beyond drug criminalization issues. A lot of things go under-reported (not entirely unreported) because reporters don't think it's cool to write news articles after they've already been scooped and writing it again would be redundant.
    • k3vinmartian, on 10/20/2007, -1/+28Absolutely nothing
    • EmperorAwesome, on 10/20/2007, -0/+15My frustration has reached a new plateau. My brain is bleeding out of my ears. I hope you're happy, "the man".
      • Detritus, on 10/20/2007, -0/+9> "My brain is bleeding out of my ears."

        Harsh trip, man.
      • DeFex, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1as long as you keep consuming their crap they are happy
    • kakwakas, on 10/26/2007, -0/+32They've even had entire shows on this on The History Channel, guys...
      • pkonink, on 10/23/2007, -0/+5It never occurred to me that there were still people out there who did not know marijuana prohibition was largely fueled by racism. But I guess this is news to a lot of people, so I dugg it - education is a wonderful thing.
    • keithburgun, on 10/21/2007, -1/+6wait you didn't know? Information has no effect whatsoever on what goes on the front pages.
    • unearth, on 10/21/2007, -0/+19Filipinos? That choice seems kind of random. I mean, "negros and hispanics" are par for the course of racism, it just seems like that's an odd nationality to throw in.
    • ExecutiveMonkey, on 10/22/2007, -0/+58"Does Anyone out there know what this information would cause if it hit the front pages?"

      Better educated apathy.
      • Waiting2awake, on 10/20/2007, -0/+15..."Better educated apathy." ...... Priceless. That explains just about everyone I com ein contact with.... B.E.A; Making your Brain so full, you won't be able to move.
    • smackhero, on 10/23/2007, -1/+14i'm pretty sure alcohol is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind. alcohol or pcp (j/k, that's just a stereotype).

      anyways, this reminds me of something i read on the warning label for Marinol (brand name of Dronabinol, or synthetic THC, usually prescribed to AIDS & chemotherapy patients to stimulate appetite and also as an anti-emetic). under the precautions/contraindications of the info sheet, it listed "feelings of exaggerated happiness," "heightened sensory awareness," "feeling high/euphoria," "positive mood changes," along with things like "altered time perception," and "thinking abnormally," as the "Side Effects/Adverse Effects" or "Signs of Overdose."

      In what kind of fascist society is feeling good considered an adverse effect? Oh yea, ours. And "exaggerated happiness?"--the word "exaggerated" suggests that something is increased to an abnormal degree, or is represented as greater than the actual case. So who determines the normative level of happiness that one should experience? Is there such a thing as being TOO happy? And if there were such a thing, is it really an issue we ought to be concerned with in a world which seems to be overwhelmingly plagued by unhappiness?

      Additionally, thinking "abnormally" is also listed here as an adverse effect implying that unconventional thought is undesirable. And once again, who determines what is normal thinking? Maybe charging patients with terminal illnesses extortionate prices for a synthetic version of something that occurs naturally in marijuana plants, which are cheap and easy to grow, is abnormal thinking. Some might even say this goes beyond abnormal, and extends into immoral and opportunistic. I guess this is just another "side effect" of capitalism.

      for more info on marinol: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1676244
      • petewiz, on 10/20/2007, -0/+8We live in a land where medical marijuana patients get thrown in jail, while people who defend Oxycontin can run for president. Welcome to America.
      • scubasteve377, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1*MINOR EDIT*
        "I guess this is just another 'side effect' of ***CORPORATISM***."
        True free market capitalism is basically devoid of government regulation, like say, a ban on marijuana. But other than that, very well said.
    • petewiz, on 10/20/2007, -0/+6This type of information would be powerful if it was published in major newspapers. Groups like NORML and the Marijuana Policy Project really need to step it up on their ad campaigns. If they printed quotes from the racist architects of the Drug War, as well as some of the racist and anti-Semitic quotes from Nixon regarding drug policy, more people would be aware of incompetence behind this failed "war".
      "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists." --- Tricky Dick Nixon.
      Public enemy number one my ass.
    • Blitzenn, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2hmmm. Perhaps there had ought to be a bigger push for citizens to understanad our own history. It's no secret and the official stance for the US government has not changed nor ever been retracted. Harry's words are part of the official record, (although some of them are not actually his words). The only tennent the US has left in it's pocket to use for enforcment of this policy is that it creates insanity and crime (which they still attempt to use to 'educate' the American public with). They have purposefully not funded a single official study of the drugs they say are so bad, so we haven't any choice to believe what they say, right? Amazingly, the other tennents of the drug czar's purpose remain in place, but not spoken about. Do they truely still believe that is the cause of inner city strife aand racial inequity? Can't we somehow make it clear to our own government that this is unacceptable? Probably not in my experience.
  • Observant1, on 10/24/2007, -5/+193proof that the demonization of pot was a racist issue out the gate, hate propaganda created mostly for DuPont wanting to sell nylon. this HERB has benefitted mankind over 3,000 years but greed inspired racism has made it the cause of millions of people to be deprived of their freedom.
    save "the war on drugs" for the real drugs, prohibition on pot is unrealistic and inhumane both. FBI reports record number of induviduals busted for pot this year, but out the other side of their ass they tell us theyre winning the war on drugs, brilliant no?
    • lormahoykyd2007, on 10/21/2007, -10/+3Of course they had to ban it. it never helped Terran's before because we always had hydrocodone, and morophine. AS much ***** as that line is I can see the government trying to use it.
    • rakslice, on 10/20/2007, -8/+1except for the proof part =)
    • Midvicious, on 10/21/2007, -2/+9Marijauna in America, in the early 20th century, was burned along highways to solve the "Southwest problem" illegal immigrants. It didn't matter that the mayor of New York, Laguardia, wrote a report on the "harmlessness" of marijuana against all the reefer madness. Boy how things have "changed".
    • speerross, on 10/21/2007, -1/+16"this HERB has benefitted mankind over 3,000 years"
      Actually I think there is evidence to say it was utilised by mankind 10 000 years ago
    • hematose, on 10/20/2007, -7/+1I think the laws controlling drug use are silly as much as the next guy, but I think you need to redefine your concept of "proof". I certainly hope that you do this before you become someone's juror.
    • rocket777, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3You can't have a war on some drugs, but just not pot. That's not freedom. Besides, in 1920's pot was legal while boos was illegal. And the same war on opium was for racial motives, to get down on those Chinks in Chinatown. Opium is safer than alcohol, except for the danger from the cops.

      BTW, do you know how they circumvented the Constitution to make pot illegal? It was the tax stamp, and that was overturned by the Tim Leary case, yes, the acid king guy. But by that time the Constitution was being ignored and so they just turned around the next day and passed a law to outlaw pot directly.
  • jennifer4peace, on 10/23/2007, -59/+11oh yes, it is important that the lies they used to ban this herb are exposed. great job.
    peace, love and respect,
    jen
    www.myspace.com/jenniferstruth
    • Timmaay, on 10/23/2007, -9/+22Your myspace is gay.
    • cfulp, on 10/27/2007, -4/+1Not really gay, just so very very very cluttered. I have a 20mb (that's mega bit) internet connection, and it still took me a while to load that.
  • Phrag, on 10/24/2007, -5/+156The drug war is still a war of discrimination. Today the lines are down along class instead of strictly on race. If you are rich and get caught doing drugs, you go to rehab. If you are poor, you go to jail. If you have a drug charge, you loose federal financial aide. This has no effect on the rich who don't need financial aide. It only punishes the poor. Poor people buy crack while rich people buy powder cocaine. The difference between the penalties of possession of these substances (despite the fact that they are the same thing in different forms) is so bad that the Supreme Court is holding a case on whether they are unconstitutional. The drug war is a class war in disguise.
    • SiNN4R, on 10/21/2007, -3/+16Some of the drug laws in many places go well beyond poorly written into the realm of disgusting abuse of power.
    • felman87, on 10/21/2007, -7/+4Welcome to reality
    • troye, on 10/22/2007, -2/+6Phraq, you speak the truth. Nice name by the way. Bring Prack magazine baq!
      • ccheath, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3it's a G not a Q
        you're font is set a bit too small, methinks...
        • troye, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Oh, I see. I'm running 1400x900 on a 17" laptop. I don't want to mess with the fonts. Some programs complain about fonts.
    • bignerd, on 10/21/2007, -10/+3"The drug war is still a war of discrimination. Today the lines are down along class instead of strictly on race. If you are rich and get caught doing drugs, you go to rehab. If you are poor, you go to jail."

      rich = white
      poor = black/hispanic/filipinos
      • zeromancer, on 10/21/2007, -0/+15you've obviously never been to a trailer park. you ignorant *****.
      • maou, on 10/21/2007, -0/+11What are you talking about? I know tons of po' white folk who've been busted for drugs.
    • Detritus, on 10/21/2007, -1/+18The "War on Discrimination" goes all the way down to the local level. About 12 years ago I was getting high with some Mexican classmates. They were essentially "bussed in" from the harsher East Side to my more mundane South Side, and were used to police hassling them. We were just sitting there in a park not bothering anyone when 2 cop cars show up... surprised the ***** out of me. They didn't even search us when they realize there was a white guy in the this circle of Mexicans, and after they left all my friends said they couldn't believe how nice the cops are when white people are around.

      Not more than 2-3 days later the same exact sort of scenario happened in a different area. I really took that to heart.
    • omgwtfwallhack, on 10/22/2007, -6/+1"Poor people buy crack while rich people buy powder cocaine. The difference between the penalties of possession of these substances (despite the fact that they are the same thing in different forms) is so bad that the Supreme Court is holding a case on whether they are unconstitutional."

      I don't know what you are talking about but in most states cocaine and crack cocaine possession are both felonies.
      • thinkfirst87, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3There are different ways that punishments are set up between the two drugs. I believe that crack has a harsher punishment.
      • netant, on 10/21/2007, -0/+7but they are punished unequally.

        1st time offender:
        5 grams of crack = minimum 5 years in federal prison.
        500 grams of blow = maximum of 1 year in prison.
  • SeethisPass, on 10/23/2007, -10/+38Greed is ultimately a weakness.
    Greed is rampant in America and must be reduced at this point in order to restore the value and credibility of our nation.
    Greed on the part of those who would make marijuana illegal to protect their personal fortunes at the expense of millions of respectable and hard working Americans for over 60 years has weakened our nation by making those valuable citizens into falsely slandered "criminals" with records of having smoked a herb that would
    " Make them likely to kill their brothers".
    A simple decision that greed is ultimately a weakness and to occasionally communicate that stance would soon do a lot to help us regain what has been lost in America on many levels. Counter to what has been " learned " by many Americans, Greed is NOT good
    Do the right thing, legalize.
    • SiNN4R, on 10/21/2007, -7/+3Gold gold! Give me your precious gold!
    • Hananda, on 10/21/2007, -6/+1An elimination or severe reduction of greed would result in rapid and complete societal collapse. Is that what you really want?
      • SeethisPass, on 10/21/2007, -1/+3I'm hoping for a very small reduction in the acceptability of greed. Nothing more, nothing less.
        The balance would change smoothly, just enough to lighten everyones load.
    • Hananda, on 10/20/2007, -2/+2Every time now, a double post.
  • NikoKun, on 10/22/2007, -3/+41lol, I think these kind of racist and false claims, were made to play on the minds of the public, because a large majority of people back then, still were very much racist. But it wasn't the racism which guided those statements at their core. Anslinger had many connections to industries, that were very worried about Hemp being a major competitor. So making cannabis illegal was a perfect way to get rid of hemp. He used the racist statement, and the scare-tactic lies, in order to win over the majority on the issue. Even though the agriculture industry was very against this prohibition, along with the AMA... openly opposed cannabis prohibition... yet their protests were often overlooked or denied, because of the fears of "horrible violence and harm causing drug" which made "degenerate races" act up... XD I remember some quote from the AMA opposing prohibition, in favor of the medical aspects of pot... Yet they were laughed at and flat out told if they didn't have any support for the prohibition, not to even get involved. *goes off to find the quote*
    • AOLBITES, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/AMA_opposes_1937.h ...

      American Medical Association
      Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation
      Chicago, July 10, 1937
      Hon. Pat Harrison
      Chairman, Committee on Finance, United States Senate
      Washington D.C.

      SIR: I have been instructed by the board of trustees of the American Medical Association to protest on behalf of the association against the enactment in its present form of so much of H.R. 6906 as relates to the medicinal use of cannabis and its preparations and derivatives. The act is entitled "An Act to impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to impose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue therefrom by registry and recording."

      Cannabis and its preparations and derivatives are covered in the bill by the term "marihuana" as that term is defined in section 1, paragraph (b). There is no evidence, however, that the medicinal use of these drugs has caused or is causing cannabis addiction. ..... cont.@link
      • NikoKun, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2Oh hey, thanks for posting that! ^_^
  • vault, on 10/22/2007, -6/+68Wow, so the over 80 million Americans who have admitted to smoking pot are degenerates too?
    • SiNN4R, on 10/21/2007, -4/+25I am but I can't speak for the others.
      • bassmule, on 10/21/2007, -1/+9Whaddaya want me to say? I used to be a good guy and now pot makes me a degenerate? I was ALWAYS a degenerate!
    • seomike, on 10/22/2007, -24/+4nope, just the ones that keep smoking it...
    • IdevInull, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Yes.
  • wishninja, on 10/21/2007, -1/+17Ever wonder why the drug war still goes on without question? They DEA stance is retarded yet we still are not winning. I think in the past I have made many mistakes advocating. If you advocating for a change in drug policy please visit this site. We need to become better at getting our point across.
    http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/activist/persu ...
  • asdfuiop, on 10/21/2007, -21/+7In other news, segregation is now illegal
  • bmdubya, on 10/24/2007, -4/+77I love the quote "Marijuana is the most-violence caused drug in mankind." That is so funny. I guess alcohol doesn't count as a drug.
    • WWWoody, on 10/22/2007, -17/+2So they both can't be bad?

      I'm tired of all this ***** about "hey man, ya know why the government is trying to keep us down man? it's because we have the WEED man! big brother wants it all too himself!"

      Marijuana is only good for medicinal purposes and for hemp, which isn't worth smoking.
      • Corrosionx, on 10/22/2007, -0/+2It's good to have fun too. Loosen up a little.
    • gormenghast, on 10/21/2007, -0/+16And I guess extreme relaxation counts as violence
  • rac1234, on 10/23/2007, -3/+78"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."

    I wondered why that kept happening. Mental note: stay off the weed...
    • DiggerRich, on 10/23/2007, -2/+46I thought it was "You smoke a joint and you're likely to eat more Doritos."
      • Summader, on 10/24/2007, -0/+21Everyone knows that Pot is a gateway drug..............a gateway to the bottom of a bag of Doritos.
      • unearth, on 10/21/2007, -1/+6It's almost 4AM, and that just made me so ***** hungry.
      • Tiak, on 10/21/2007, -1/+12But don't you see? What if your brother is IN a bag of Doritos?!!!
        • clothmonkey, on 10/21/2007, -1/+4Then the violence is natural, he was born with a chip on his shoulder.
    • AUmrysh, on 10/21/2007, -2/+19My brother was never around me when I was high, lucky for him.
    • bignerd, on 10/20/2007, -2/+4That was an error... They meant, "You smoke a joint and you're likely yo kill a Brotha!
      • Waiting2awake, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3Puff puff pass MAN! puff puff pass!
  • SiNN4R, on 10/22/2007, -5/+19Thanks a lot degenerates.
    • gbro, on 10/21/2007, -1/+14This is why we can't have nice things.
  • HappyScrappy, on 10/21/2007, -33/+12It's the weekend, the potheads take control of Digg again.
    • derek20cali, on 10/21/2007, -6/+20Like they have jobs or something...
      • unearth, on 10/20/2007, -5/+2Oh come on, you can't bury that. Credit where credit is due, people.
  • bud38, on 10/22/2007, -4/+44Dear God I'm High.
    • doctorfungi, on 10/21/2007, -2/+9Saying the word "God" on Digg... you must be high.
      • Wartyboskfapped, on 10/21/2007, -0/+17He was referring to his dog and fumbled the keys.
  • AUmrysh, on 10/22/2007, -2/+58I never knew entertainers were a race... I guess it makes sense.
    • Coretron, on 10/21/2007, -0/+5Perhaps he's referring to Gypsies...
    • ZenMojo, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3Denzel Washington, as a black entertainer, must be mixed-race.
    • cmackattack, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1alien race; /rolls_eyes
  • LastSight, on 10/21/2007, -7/+17So the White Man brought me and my brothers down....shocker.....
  • week, on 10/21/2007, -5/+7Sad. This must stop.
  • omarciddo, on 10/20/2007, -9/+7This is a news story.
    • MrESaulved, on 10/21/2007, -1/+3It's news when you don't know the history of the nation you live in. Lotsa of interesting things happened before 1980. Why *you* do no know history is a whole different topic.
  • Repeater2000, on 10/22/2007, -25/+30According to Digg he was right and has a right to say this.


    I love when Digg loyalties collide.

    Science = Good
    Weed = Good
    Racism proven by science = OK....
    Racism proven by science used to insult weed = Head Asplode
    • Touchy610, on 10/21/2007, -4/+3Okay, that made me crack up a bit.
    • unearth, on 10/21/2007, -4/+10I must have missed the part where diggers approved of racism in any form. Link me?
      • Repeater2000, on 10/21/2007, -2/+5The Nobel laurette in the news over the week.....
        • krnldmp, on 10/21/2007, -1/+1So if some part of a widespread belief is found true it's still nothing but the cheapest racism, right?
    • JoeVet, on 10/21/2007, -0/+7Racism was not proven by science. Watson is a racist that was a scientist involved in DNA research. Big difference.
  • HastyBoom, on 10/20/2007, -15/+3He said this in 1937!
    That was 70 years ago.
    ***** a' I smoke weed EVERY DAY but this post and you ppl digging it are just stretching here......
    • LBobRife, on 10/21/2007, -1/+14The point isn't that it's news, it's awareness. This information has been out forever, but the more people know about it the better.
    • Tiak, on 10/21/2007, -0/+8It's being dugg because it happens that 70 years ago, around when these comments were made and so forth, is when the current policy was set....
    • HastyBoom, on 10/20/2007, -4/+1I've known about it for years.
      The post seemed a bit alarmist to me.
  • ellisgl, on 10/21/2007, -21/+5Is it me - or does this keep making to the front page each week? Oh wait - they're stone - they don't remember!
  • mimbomike, on 10/22/2007, -6/+30i know we're all potheads so can we just make a marijuana section of digg? sometimes i miss the weed articles bc im gettin BLAZEDDD
    • Skanadian, on 10/20/2007, -3/+3I bet you're so BLAZEDDD from smoking some oregano the local high school dealer sold to you.
    • gropo, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Dangit whigg.com is cybersquatted.
  • Richandler, on 10/22/2007, -2/+15I digg this because I don't htink most people realize the root reason why marijuana was made illegal in the first place. Don't ever follow the money. Just look into history for the answers.
    • Shorties, on 10/22/2007, -1/+11Look at the money! The only reason this guy said all this stuff was not because he was racist (In my opinion he didn't seem like that was his main concern) He was saying what the government wanted him to say, he was trying to get his department as much money he possibly could by making out to be something dire, this man was a smart greedy man and we are still paying for it today.
      • pkonink, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2You have a strong point if you take into account that he was at best against and at worst ambivalent about mj prohbition before money was waved in his face.

        "Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure (1934), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign aimed at alarming the public abruptly became his primary focus."

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger#Th ...
  • chaos36, on 10/21/2007, -2/+9pot is illegal because William Randall Hearst made money from using His paper, and since he printed the news he could make up ***** like this to scare the public
  • databoy, on 10/20/2007, -9/+9***** will always baffle brains. Only in America can you talk out of your ass and that hot air noise will be acepted as gospel.
    • SiNN4R, on 10/21/2007, -1/+11Yeah every other place in the world truth and justice reign supreme.
      • unearth, on 10/20/2007, -1/+3There are more willfully ignorant people here than anywhere in the world. The amount of naturally ignorant people across the world is most likely constant, though.
  • vinwal, on 10/21/2007, -4/+9That is one of the funniest things I have ever read. The pathetic aspect of it is that some people actually still think this way.
  • mimbomike, on 10/21/2007, -14/+2lol whut at this article
  • christoast, on 09/04/2008, -1/+28I for one, knew Satan was behind this the whole time. When will you learn, the jazz and swing is here people, are you just going to stand by and watch our society crumble to pieces?
    • bassmule, on 10/22/2007, -2/+5Does this mean I gotta throw away all those Miles and Monk CDs???
  • SatansTaco, on 10/23/2007, -29/+2PROTIP: SHUT THE ***** UP ABOUT POT ALREADY.
  • DeadWords, on 10/22/2007, -1/+22So those are the reasons pot is illegal? Because of the greed of Anslinger, Hearst and DuPont..? Crazy.

    Anyone have more info on the plastic-competition products that could be created with hemp seed oil derivatives..? Does this mean that there could have been a viable bio-degradable alternative to plastice for the past 60 years instead of the petroleum-based land-filler we've been using courtesy of DuPont..? Scary prospect if true.
    • vinwal, on 10/21/2007, -0/+11http://www.hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20PLASTICS.htm
      And other uses
      http://www.alteredstatement.com/store/mainhemp.htm
    • khyberkitsune, on 10/21/2007, -0/+5It's more than DuPont wanting to do nylon, DuPont at the time made a process that was able to efficiently turn wood pulp into paper. However this process used lots of acids and other harmful chemicals, whereas Hemp-made paper did not. DuPont, the cotton industry, and more were in on this.

      What's funny is Cotton fields were mainly responsible for the dust bowl back in the depression era, because cotton severely drains the land and gives nothing back after it's growing cycle, so in a few years overfarming and adding chemical fertilizers withut adding in organic material screwed the soil up, and plants couldn't thrive any longer, adnd boom, dust bowl.

      It's funny, DuPont is indirectly responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters to ever happen in our nation's history.
      • Observant1, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3exactly right, and theyre at it again with soy, and threatening food supply with corn as biofuel.
  • rgodfrey, on 10/21/2007, -2/+11My favorite degenerate race is the Gambling Slut 500.
    • Wartyboskfapped, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3Outstanding. I LOLed! That hasn't happened in years. I bow to you sir.
  • livebuck, on 10/21/2007, -12/+2and then there was POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • pintomp3, on 10/23/2007, -1/+31reagan hated the poor, supported apartheid south africa, opposed integration and martin luther king day, and escalated the war on drugs. it amazes me that he is held in such high regard.
    • BlacklabelSAR, on 10/21/2007, -0/+14The Reagan era was a cult of personality. He told people what they wanted to hear. Reagan basically fluffed Fundamentalist America.
    • petewiz, on 10/21/2007, -0/+11Thank you pinto! I am so tired of people riding on Reagan's dick while conveniently ignoring many of the crimes committed by him and his administration.
      Some examples:
      1.) Iran-Contra Affair: covertly selling weapons to Iran despite them being considered a "terrorist state" in order to fund "freedom fighters" in Central America. Turns out those freedom fighters were responsible for the deaths of many innocent people. I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure that makes them terrorists.
      2.) Cocaine Trafficking: Another way they funded the Contras was through the CIA selling cocaine.
      Many reports on these activities were released, only to go largely ignored. The validity of these reports was denied by George "Slam Dunk" Tenet, who was the CIA director at the time. Since this is the guy who was so certain there were WMD's in Iraq, I'm pretty sure you can understand how reliable of a source he is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contra%27s_co ...
      Do a little research and it becomes obvious what type of person ol' Ronnie really was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration ...
      • Observant1, on 10/21/2007, -0/+1bush family buddies son john hinkley shot reagan, about demasculated him, and vice president bush was in charge. CIA man, ran Air America trading weapons and cash for drugs through korea and vietnam. iran/contra was same thing with shipments of drugs going to mena arkansas where clinton was governor and hillary's rose lawfirm set up tyson chicken to launder the monies, meantime nancy reagan gets on the podium with "just say no!" campaign to reverse psychology advertize drugs for someone(s) who had a LOT to get rid of, all by design to exponentially grow a police state by busting people for having a small amount of the drugs they imported in the first place. pure evil genius in the plotting and profitting from the destruction of society.
    • jrspartan53, on 10/22/2007, -3/+1Dismantling the USSR probably didn't hurt his rep
  • FascistNation, on 10/21/2007, -1/+8Gosh, and I always figured drugs and guns were jobs programs for the Bureau of Alcohol put out of business by the repeal of prohibition 9 months earlier . . . BATF, because government never gets smaller. Never.
  • ZenMojo, on 10/23/2007, -1/+29It's funny that the cursory evidence is that poor people serve longer sentences than wealthy people, but it goes even deeper than that. An equal amount of marijuana as cocaine will get you five times the prison sentence. Guess which racial group is more likely to smoke pot than snort coke? Exactly.
    The irony is that cocaine is far more dangerous than marijuana (can you imagine snorting a dime bag of cocaine? You'd have a heart attack and ***** die...people die from cocaine overdoses all the time, but how many marijuana overdoses do people die from?), yet the law does not reflect this in the slightest.
    FTA: "This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
    So it's marijuana's fault white women dig rock stars and black guys! Someone has to stop this madness!
    • omgwtfwallhack, on 10/22/2007, -4/+0Shut the ***** up. You will not die from snorting a dime bag of cocaine , thats only approximately one line. Maybe two if you do little pansy lines.
      • clothmonkey, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2"The lady doth protest too much..."
        • omgwtfwallhack, on 10/20/2007, -0/+0"The lady doth protest too much..."

          If it only meant what you thought Gertrude meant....
    • adeptusliberus, on 10/22/2007, -0/+1This is an excellent point to shed light on. Other drugs do WAY more damage. One thing to remember about sentencing with drugs and what a judge and jury will do to you depends heavily on what state you live in.
  • LoneRanger85, on 10/22/2007, -9/+8Hey don't stop at 75 years. Why not go back to Salem, Mass to slime the country for once discriminating against witches? There's no end of reasons to hate your country if you crack open a history book.
    • Acewrap, on 10/22/2007, -1/+5I'd rather settle for reasons for hating you. Thanks for providing me one.
    • clothmonkey, on 10/22/2007, -0/+6Yeah, cause, you know, the persecution of Native Americans wouldn't have been a better example at ALL...
    • ZenMojo, on 10/23/2007, -0/+7Native Americans are still persecuted and still suffer, so that's an interesting example. The real reason to drag up a 75-year-old quote is that this 75-year-old quote still informs our domestic policy. Congress is loathe to reevaluate the medical effects of marijuana, let alone compare it to any other drug, OTC or otherwise.
      Now, if we, you know, still burned witches in Salem, Massachusetts then we could drag up that history.
    • LoneRanger85, on 10/22/2007, -1/+2OK, always willing to oblige. Let's look at more recent FACTS. http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/27/marijuana.psy ...
  • Godlike, on 10/22/2007, -2/+27I talk about politics. My girlfriend said, "What do you hope to accomplish? Go do something or shut up." to which I replied, I AM doing something. I am generating interest in politics and concern over social issues within the populace around me. Once intelligent, everyday people actually start caring, we can actually start fixing some problems.
    • fcukbush, on 10/23/2007, -8/+16When i talk to my girlfriend it's usually limited to what i want in my sandwich.
      • Tiak, on 10/21/2007, -1/+9misogyny actually dugg down?... Who are you people, and what have you done with the digg I know and love?
      • clothmonkey, on 10/20/2007, -5/+3Wow, most people don't spend much time talking to their hand.
        Sorry for the trolling, but people like this make me want to punch things.
    • asdfasdf, on 10/21/2007, -0/+8People who cause changes have a bigger influence than people who just talk about an issue. Write to your representatives. Donate to anti-prohibition organizations (LEAP, NORML, or ones that might support the cause indirectly, ACLU, NOFA, etc), protest, make a site, etc.

      You're right in saying that when enough people know, things will change, but it's been 70 years. Drugs are readily available to anyone, big corporations would lose too much money if they were legalized, and most people who have a big influence can afford to use drugs, both financially and in regards to their image and freedom. The rich can afford legal pharmaceutical alternatives (i.e., Big Fat Idiot Rush Limbaugh).

      The Intertubes are certainly speeding up the process by which people get informed, so it'll be interesting to see how things will be in a decade.
      • clothmonkey, on 10/21/2007, -1/+2Dugg up, but it's worthwhile to make a little tangent here - the pills Rush was popping(And probably still is, although I know I have no proof for it) were sans prescription, hence illegal for him to take.
    • Evildudetx, on 10/20/2007, -0/+2Dude, you're not doing ***** unless you're running for office.
    • ZenMojo, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3Lobbyists are all well and good, but you can always do more. But what's the easiest thing to do? Viral advertising.
  • Eekam0use, on 10/22/2007, -1/+16Harry Asslinger was a douche bag...
  • Vash3001, on 10/21/2007, -13/+4OLD NEWS IS OLD
  • joshuaer, on 10/20/2007, -9/+3Dugg Down yes it was correct but in 59 or 70 Pot "weed" if you will was classified a narcotic!
    • falseleftright, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2Oh, a narcotic, well, I guess it's bad for me then. Good thing alcohol isn't a, what did you call it, narcotic?
  • Beekeeperoli, on 10/22/2007, -4/+8Hahaha what an interesting read, so funny
    if anything marijuana opens your mind, it makes you see things like they really are,
    for those that dont know it entirely suppresses anger and all the things that cause war, in other words, if everyone had a joint there would be no war, no reason to fight, i actually think everyone needs to have a good ol cone,

    why are authorities banning things the come from the ground, its a gift from nature herself and should be embraced not outlawed.

    there are so many pro's for marijuana that i aint even funny, it with a good diet can cure cancer and aids, but in this modern age society (doctors most of who are totally corrupt and have deals with pharmaceutical companies want you to buy all their drugs, which are all essentially based on grounded herbs n ***** but now contain 1% goodness and 99 percent total *****). Go back to nature folks, enjoy some herbal healing, drink your peppermind and chamomile teas plus 100 other sorts.

    i hope one day everyone smokes the good greenery, it will fix a lot of health issues, it would stop war entirely. i would say more but whatever
    • Evildudetx, on 10/22/2007, -5/+1If you need a drug to 'see things like they really are', then you've got some serious issues. Or you're completely oblivious to the fact that you are extremely stupid and think smoking ***** causes your mind to expand.
      • BabaRamDass, on 10/20/2007, -0/+3I quote the great American psychologist William James:

        "...our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded."
    • pkonink, on 10/21/2007, -1/+1Marijuana will not prevent war and most definitely *will not cure AIDS,* ok? You are not helping end prohibition with dangerously stupid comments like that, so please ... sigh, nevermind. lol
  • TDR25, on 10/22/2007, -3/+12So Marijuana is illegal because a few rich White men were afraid that their daughters and wives would get a taste of Negro...is that what the article is saying because that's what I took from it? And how dare they make up such lies about Marijuana!
    • falseleftright, on 10/21/2007, -0/+4No, racist white men used hatred and fear of negroes to spur states into action, thus spearheading (no pun) the anti marijuana legislation. It was more then just a few racist white men. To be fair, most white people held racist beliefs back then, it was the status quo. This fodder seemed very plausible to them as a result of the prevailing societal beliefs.
  • Mdiggin, on 10/20/2007, -6/+0MARIJUANA!! The only thing that helped with the 3 Day woodstock Peace and Music. And they say Marijuana makes people violent.
  • pleiadianagenda, on 10/23/2007, -1/+24The Harry J. Anslinger's of the world are the problem, not drugs. Drugs are just like technology. Neither good nor bad, just an extension of the personality behind it. Masterpieces have been composed and created under the influence of drugs. People have killed and died under the influence of drugs. I don't blame drugs for societal problems. I blame the idiots abusing them.

    But that PALES in comparison to the personality types like Anslinger. Not only is he a racist control freak punk, but he held that position for over three decades, which means he was a sock puppet for an elite and corporate world who wanted that type of mentality put in place. These people are the real problem, and maybe, just maybe, if they sat back and puffed a few fatties they would enlighten themselves for a moment and see the error of their draconian ways.

    If sick of the hypocrisies. You can pop all the oxycontin you want and drink your liver to death, but oh God forbid you puff a few bonghits.
  • googeling, on 10/20/2007, -5/+1and you thought only the KKKs were racist?
    what has this got to do with Filipinos or other races huh?! huh?!
    • falseleftright, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2Because according to them, they are also a member of the "degenerate" races.
  • unfairunbalance, on 10/21/2007, -5/+14War on Drugs is fake just like the war on terrorism. The feds ship it in. Distribute into the inner cities and prisons to be sold to the users. Law enforcement agencies go after the users. They are fined and sent through rehab and then set free to continue again. Big business for Local, State and Federal Governments.$$$$$$$$$ It was cocaine in the 1980's Iran contra and Mena Arkansas. Now it is opium-heroine from Afghanistan. The real reason we went after the Taliban.
    • Observant1, on 10/21/2007, -0/+1and that is in the news too, if you read between the lines. taliban were going to allow an oil pipeline through their turf, for their cut of course. they were set up to be growing the opium too btw. when they were going to be shortchanged on their cut for the pipeline, they torched the opium crops. THAT is when the media began demonizing them
  • mikerudygaines, on 10/20/2007, -6/+1Hmm....this must mean only one thing...... stoned swingin' white women for everyone!!
  • Swift2, on 10/21/2007, -1/+20You don't have to go back to Anslinger. Just go back to the '60s. Recall that the Nixon landslide of '72 was based on one thing: no, not Vietnam. He had dithered on peace and "cut & run" there for four years, but just before the election, he announced the peace agreement. A few weeks after his election, the last combat troops left Saigon. Most people were as against the war by that time as they are against Iraq now. No, the Nixon landslide was against hippies and demonstrators and longhairs and communes and pot-smoking. THAT was what people were against.

    Those years were the time the big drug crackdown started. Huge long sentences for possession. Quantities at which you were a dealer went down, down. Warrants became really easy to get. The semi-militarized police we have now, battering rams, military helmets and body armor, all of that -- far too often it's to control users, not the big dealers. How much of the aim was to clamp down on blacks, and how much on the hippies? It was Anslinger's war again, restated for the new era. Racial criminals and thought criminals were the target.

    Rick Steeves, the kind of bland travel host of PBS -- he's always showing us around Italy and France and so on -- did a very good column on the contrast between the American and European attitudes towards war. Legal sales in Amsterdam haven't raised usage at all. Treating addicts, giving them clean needles and the like while you try to get them off the habit, saves lives and huge amounts of money, and makes theft for drug sales almost disappear.

    We now have the largest per capita prison population in the world -- including China -- largely because of the insanity of the drug war and the very long sentences we impose for simple possession and small-time sales. Human rights watch: "The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented.17 Blacks comprise 13 percent of the national population, but 30 percent of people arrested, 41 percent of people in jail,18 and 49 percent of those in prison. Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. 20 One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995. One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail. Thirteen percent of the black adult male population has lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws."

    I can't wait for the righties to attack all this, because they'll read it as, "Blacks are lazy and animalistic, and drugs make them crazy!" Thank you, Mr. Anslinger.
    • mikerudygaines, on 10/20/2007, -8/+1Damn, I'm black and I think this "quote" is poorly written. How about this one, "Learn2Grammar".
      • falseleftright, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3WTF does being black have to do with grammer? Oh, wait, you are black and your grammer naturally sucks, so for this guy's grammer to be worse, it must be really bad. I get it. You are black and you are perpetuating black stereotypes (and aren't even aware of it). I am black and I take offense to this. Ever read Uncle Tom's Cabin?
        • BabaRamDass, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1I think he was using the black qualifier to justify his criticism of a post that was clearly defending blacks.
    • captric, on 10/21/2007, -10/+0Well - no one goes to jail for drug usage anymore, your facts are wrong. People go to jail for violent crimes and the Justice System in this country is not some sort of mindless iconic machine. It takes a lot of people to put someone in jail - the police have to gather the evidence properly and make an arrest - the prosecutor has to decide that the evidence supports prosecution - the judge has to determine that the trial is fair and constitutional - a jury of 12 people have to find the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt after hearing all of the evidence - the defense attorney has to provide mitigating circumstances. And then the prison system has to decide that the person deserves to take up prison space over someone else.
      If any particular racial group is overrepresented in prison, well then they should look to themselves to STOP COMMITTING VIOLENT CRIMES and stop BLAMING the system that everybody else seems to be living under in relative peace.
    • JoeVet, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1Go watch ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN and then tell us why Nixon was elected. He rigged the election and was eventually forced to resigned in disgrace.
      • pkonink, on 10/20/2007, -0/+1I could be wrong, but in fact it was Kennedy who rigged an election, or to be more specific it was Sinatra who rigged it for Kennedy. Nixon resigned in disgrace because he was linked to a group of men who illegally trespassed into the Democratic National HQ to steal information or conduct sabotage - the ensuing investigation revealed he spyed upon and bullied news reporters, rival candidates, etc. But I do not believe it had anything to do with election fraud.
    • pkonink, on 10/21/2007, -0/+3Excellent assessment. I've long thought that the WoD was just an evolving front for the establishment of populace control by the government. You could call it the anti-civil rights movement, which coalesced in opposition to the actual civil rights movement. What were the 60s most important contributions? Methodologies for controlling large crowds, policy dogma like drug schedules which justify both funding and expansion of law enforcement, erosion of existing laws which protect individual liberties - though at the same time expansion of liberties for individuals in the form of large (corporate) organizations ... I'm rambling, I apologize. But it seems like since the opportunists (like Ainslinger for instance) have always been in government, we need to start coming up with better ways to keep them in check.

      Oh wait, thats right - the best way is to have an educated populace which, though enjoying the freedom of individuality, is committed to their community. No child left behind, I guess. Instead we have a nation of functional illiterates medicated from birth who think individuality is the type of car you drive, and instead of being actively committed to their community they become saddled with crushing debt in a consumerist competition with their neighbors.

      Man, I'm rambling again - see what weed does to person? Maybe pot should be illegal, lol - as my mother used to say over and over "GET OFF THE POT!" lol
      • Observant1, on 10/21/2007, -0/+2Dugg for the accuracy of the first 2 paragraphs, but have a SPANK for the sacasm at the end..
        you know as well as I do what kind of thought and clarity of expression can happen for being one of us darn hippies who are capable of lecturing others to death.. walk proud MoFo !!
  • ftwn00b, on 10/22/2007, -11/+3wow. that'd the ***** gayest ***** i've ever heard. ***** america.
  • Poovey, on 10/21/2007, -0/+7Anslinger did this at the behest of William Randolf Hearst.
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