WHY is cannabis a bad thing???

[Forkbender]

^+1

 

[Peyote&Syrup]

 

[druglessdouglas]

depends whats in the cake. whatn type of cake was it?

 

[underbridge]

chocolate, i think

 

[Meduzz]

LOL the Portal Cake
aaahaaahahahahaaaa

 

[druglessdouglas]

there you go. theobromine is adictive

 

[Dantediv86]

yeah!!!

 

[psm]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but in seeing people bring up "The Mafia" and New World Order and things like that I figure I should post. Historically marijuana was criminalized, in the United States at least, during the early 1900's. The Southwest was seeing an influx of Mexican immigrants fleeing the Mexican Revolutution. Now of course these poor immigrants brought with them odd traditions and a cheap labor force, two things the American public has always felt threatened by. The local governments of these states, mainly Texas and New Mexico and the like saught a way to send these immigrants packing, but could not outright imprison them. Instead, they made illegal the plant that the immigrants smoked, marijuana. Marijuana itself is the Mexican term for Cannabis, and the government began calling it "marihuana" in order to give it a more devious and foreign sounding tone. These anti-marijuana laws were actually the first of the drug laws passed in America, and were to set a tone for the rest of the centuries policy toward drug use. (Previous drug laws were made against cocaine in order to arrest "crazed negros" who were accussed of "raping white women", while in reality they were just poor unemployed men who the government wanted nothing to do with).

Marijuana only became illegal nation wide after the drug spread away from the rich, cultured, bourgeoise elites and fell into the hands of the middle-class.

It remained illegal despite numerous scientific studies showing that it didn't cause the "murder, rape, and insanity" that the infamous Aslinger said it did. The Mafia wasn't involved, the Illuminati wasn't involved. It was racism that eventually built up to a public panic, confused parents who blamed the drug for the new rise of teenage rebellion and jazz music, and other social reasons.

Sounds like a short synopsis on "Grass" the documentary. Highly recommended for those interested in learning a little bit about the 20th century war on mary jane.

What the documentary fails to show is that cannabis has been used in the US for much longer. Some of the founding fathers were pot-heads and so was edison. True, that the initial fear might have come from the immigrants in the southern parts, but I tend to think that it was only a part of it all...

 

[silv]

to go back to the first question:
"Pot ain't bad for you, so no there's no reason why pots bad for you."

 

[Psychoid]

Because if it was legal it would ruin a lot of people's business.