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I was drawn into a Facebook battle of info facto's over the weekend. Normally I wouldn't let something like this carry over into days of back and forth, but because of the nature of the misinformation and the complete ignorance on the topic, I felt compiled to push my point.
A friend posted a list of things that pot can be used for with a caption asking why it's illegal. To which numerous people replied with posts ranging from holes in the brain, homicidal crane operators and other such nonsense that can not even be repeated.
I believe that to speak on this topic, first things first. The best way to start is to declare what it is we are wanting.
I believe that cannabis is a useful plant that should be able to be cultivated like any other plant to use as anyone see's fit. I think it should be decriminalized. It should be prohibited just like alcohol for consumption for anyone under 21. It should be treated as such for driving, or any job or task that requires safety for the benefit of others well being. I believe that only reason it is still illegal and not controlled by government is that they can not figure out how to tax and control a plant. When a chemical company makes a new drug, its fairly safe to say that people will not be able to make homemade versions of say "Prozac" which is why the drug company's feel safe and in control with their normal products. With pot however, they do not have that safe feeling. That's because anyone with a brain can find the info, and the materials to make there own. Drug companies hate that, as does government.
There are two main reasons hempt was outlawed in the US. both reasons while not happening at the same time in history are tied together to make the laws we have on the books today. Firstly, after the cotton gin was invented in 1793 helping that cash crop and it's production in 1862 the hempt gin was invented. That's right, "hempt" one of the four cash crops of the new world, now removed from all history books. The fact that we can change history to suit our needs is sad in of itself, but yes pot was a big crop in the new world as clothing, paper, rope ect were all made from it. The declaration of independence, and many other famous documents are printed on pot kids. With the invention of this gin however, the mass production of pot was now able to compete with cotton, and wood products on a scale it never could before. Here in lies the problem. Many rich new world family's had recently purchased vast amounts of timber land for the sole purpose of making paper. The new Hempt gin threatened the value of that land for generations. Thus began the anti-hempt lobby. People dedicated to making hempt illegal, not for your health, or the holes in your brain, but so trees could be chopped down for 100 years to make paper. It was so successful that Google spell check, as I write this, considers the word misspelled.....LOL Today the anti Hempt lobby has new sponsors:
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.
Doesn't really sound like they are concerned about holes in our brains.....hmmm, they really could give a crap about you at all, cept the bottom line, money. So, if you think Nancey Reagan made pot illegal in the 1980's to safe your soul, you would be sadly mistaken. In the 1930's however drug czar
Harry Jacob Anslinger started a seven year campaign against pot mainly to fund his departments failing income. They produced movies and information from thin air that portrayed pot as a drug that made people "mad" and "insane" Most of these ideas became engrained in our grandparents minds so much so that they still shape our views today, as misinformed as they are as compared to the real facts. Pot doesn't put holes in a persons brain, it also doesn't make a person see magical things that are not there. It doesn't make people hostile, or angry like alcohol, it also, unlike alcohol is impossible to overdose or kill yourself smoking pot.
The bottom line is that because of the history of the United states, we have lost most of the true information, real information about pot. People have been smoking it for more than 5000 years. The hidden benefits that can be discovered from this plant will never come to light until we stop making up nonsense, put our heads on straight, and stop slamming things we know nothing about.
A friend posted a list of things that pot can be used for with a caption asking why it's illegal. To which numerous people replied with posts ranging from holes in the brain, homicidal crane operators and other such nonsense that can not even be repeated.
I believe that to speak on this topic, first things first. The best way to start is to declare what it is we are wanting.
I believe that cannabis is a useful plant that should be able to be cultivated like any other plant to use as anyone see's fit. I think it should be decriminalized. It should be prohibited just like alcohol for consumption for anyone under 21. It should be treated as such for driving, or any job or task that requires safety for the benefit of others well being. I believe that only reason it is still illegal and not controlled by government is that they can not figure out how to tax and control a plant. When a chemical company makes a new drug, its fairly safe to say that people will not be able to make homemade versions of say "Prozac" which is why the drug company's feel safe and in control with their normal products. With pot however, they do not have that safe feeling. That's because anyone with a brain can find the info, and the materials to make there own. Drug companies hate that, as does government.
There are two main reasons hempt was outlawed in the US. both reasons while not happening at the same time in history are tied together to make the laws we have on the books today. Firstly, after the cotton gin was invented in 1793 helping that cash crop and it's production in 1862 the hempt gin was invented. That's right, "hempt" one of the four cash crops of the new world, now removed from all history books. The fact that we can change history to suit our needs is sad in of itself, but yes pot was a big crop in the new world as clothing, paper, rope ect were all made from it. The declaration of independence, and many other famous documents are printed on pot kids. With the invention of this gin however, the mass production of pot was now able to compete with cotton, and wood products on a scale it never could before. Here in lies the problem. Many rich new world family's had recently purchased vast amounts of timber land for the sole purpose of making paper. The new Hempt gin threatened the value of that land for generations. Thus began the anti-hempt lobby. People dedicated to making hempt illegal, not for your health, or the holes in your brain, but so trees could be chopped down for 100 years to make paper. It was so successful that Google spell check, as I write this, considers the word misspelled.....LOL Today the anti Hempt lobby has new sponsors:
1.)
Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become
dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March,
we published a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in
California coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in
2010 to legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients
collect tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And
it’s not just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that
other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for
marijuana-related crimes nationwide. - See more at:
http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/#sthash.4zgVfPHY.dpuf
1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published
a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California
coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in 2010 to
legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients collect
tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And it’s not
just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for marijuana-related crimes nationwide.
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.”
- See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/#sthash.4zgVfPHY.dpuf
1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in 2010 to legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients collect tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And it’s not just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for marijuana-related crimes nationwide2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.”
- See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/#sthash.4zgVfPHY.dpuf
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.
Doesn't really sound like they are concerned about holes in our brains.....hmmm, they really could give a crap about you at all, cept the bottom line, money. So, if you think Nancey Reagan made pot illegal in the 1980's to safe your soul, you would be sadly mistaken. In the 1930's however drug czar
Harry Jacob Anslinger started a seven year campaign against pot mainly to fund his departments failing income. They produced movies and information from thin air that portrayed pot as a drug that made people "mad" and "insane" Most of these ideas became engrained in our grandparents minds so much so that they still shape our views today, as misinformed as they are as compared to the real facts. Pot doesn't put holes in a persons brain, it also doesn't make a person see magical things that are not there. It doesn't make people hostile, or angry like alcohol, it also, unlike alcohol is impossible to overdose or kill yourself smoking pot.
The bottom line is that because of the history of the United states, we have lost most of the true information, real information about pot. People have been smoking it for more than 5000 years. The hidden benefits that can be discovered from this plant will never come to light until we stop making up nonsense, put our heads on straight, and stop slamming things we know nothing about.
1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published
a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California
coordinated the effort to defeat Prop 19, a ballot measure in 2010 to
legalize marijuana, while helping his police department clients collect
tens of millions in federal marijuana-eradication grants. And it’s not
just in California. Federal lobbying disclosures show that other police union lobbyists have pushed for stiffer penalties for marijuana-related crimes nationwide.
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.”
- See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/#sthash.4zgVfPHY.dpuf
2.) Private Prisons Corporations: Private prison corporations make millions by incarcerating people who have been imprisoned for drug crimes, including marijuana. As Republic Report’s Matt Stoller noted last year, Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest for-profit prison companies, revealed in a regulatory filing that continuing the drug war is part in parcel to their business strategy. Prison companies have spent millions bankrolling pro-drug war politicians and have used secretive front groups, like the American Legislative Exchange Council, to pass harsh sentencing requirements for drug crimes.
3.) Alcohol and Beer Companies: Fearing competition for the dollars Americans spend on leisure, alcohol and tobacco interests have lobbied to keep marijuana out of reach. For instance, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors contributed campaign contributions to a committee set up to prevent marijuana from being legalized and taxed.
4.) Pharmaceutical Corporations: Like the sin industries listed above, pharmaceutical interests would like to keep marijuana illegal so American don’t have the option of cheap medical alternatives to their products. Howard Wooldridge, a retired police officer who now lobbies the government to relax marijuana prohibition laws, told Republic Report that next to police unions, the “second biggest opponent on Capitol Hill is big PhRMA” because marijuana can replace “everything from Advil to Vicodin and other expensive pills.”
5.) Prison Guard Unions: Prison guard unions have a vested interest in keeping people behind bars just like for-profit prison companies. In 2008, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association spent a whopping $1 million to defeat a measure that would have “reduced sentences and parole times for nonviolent drug offenders while emphasizing drug treatment over prison.”
- See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/#sthash.4zgVfPHY.dpuf
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