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- Observant1, on 10/24/2007, -5/+194proof 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? - Phrag, on 10/24/2007, -5/+157The 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.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/23/2007, -5/+103some sort of internet petition that makes the people who sign it think they accomplished something today.non action activism rules!
- SeethisPass, on 10/24/2007, -10/+100
Does Anyone out there know what this information would cause if it hit the front pages? - rac1234, on 10/23/2007, -3/+79"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
I wondered why that kept happening. Mental note: stay off the weed... - 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.
- vault, on 10/22/2007, -6/+68Wow, so the over 80 million Americans who have admitted to smoking pot are degenerates too?
- 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. - AUmrysh, on 10/22/2007, -2/+58I never knew entertainers were a race... I guess it makes sense.
- DiggerRich, on 10/23/2007, -2/+46I thought it was "You smoke a joint and you're likely to eat more Doritos."
- bud38, on 10/22/2007, -4/+44Dear God I'm High.
- 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*
- kakwakas, on 10/26/2007, -0/+32They've even had entire shows on this on The History Channel, guys...
- 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.
- 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. - 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! - 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?
- k3vinmartian, on 10/20/2007, -1/+28Absolutely nothing
- 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.
- 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
- 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. - SiNN4R, on 10/21/2007, -4/+25I am but I can't speak for the others.
- Summader, on 10/24/2007, -0/+21Everyone knows that Pot is a gateway drug..............a gateway to the bottom of a bag of Doritos.
- 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. - 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. - 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.
- bushisthedevil, on 10/21/2007, -1/+19Go read a history book some time.
Hint: US imperialist ambitions was heavily focused on the Philippines at the time. - 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.
- 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. - AUmrysh, on 10/21/2007, -2/+19My brother was never around me when I was high, lucky for him.
- inactive, on 10/21/2007, -0/+17He was referring to his dog and fumbled the keys.
- benchwarmer, on 10/23/2007, -4/+21Hey my eSignature with no real verification backing it COUNTS!
- wakananda, on 10/21/2007, -1/+17Your omniscience must be a burden to you.
- 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 ... - gormenghast, on 10/21/2007, -0/+16And I guess extreme relaxation counts as violence
- 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".
- Eekam0use, on 10/22/2007, -1/+16Harry Asslinger was a douche bag...
- zeromancer, on 10/21/2007, -0/+15you've obviously never been to a trailer park. you ignorant *****.
- 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.
- 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 - derek20cali, on 10/21/2007, -6/+20Like they have jobs or something...
- SiNN4R, on 10/22/2007, -5/+19Thanks a lot degenerates.
- 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.
- inactive, on 10/26/2007, -1/+15I must be a negro.
- Timmaay, on 10/23/2007, -9/+22Your myspace is gay.
- 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.
- 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.
- gbro, on 10/21/2007, -1/+14This is why we can't have nice things.
- 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 - 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.
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