Well, this is not a chat or debate thread, and although I was aware of the posts veering off topic, I refrained from doing anything about it because I thought it was a temporary detour. However once the posts were flagged due to being off topic and too political, I decided to do a little clean up.
I apologize to all who’s posts were removed, I despise censorship and engage in it only when
necessary.
We (mods) also try to minimize any posts which may be perceived as even being slightly politically provocative. Political topics consistently create unnecessary friction and resentment which can spread throughout the forum, distracting us from the reasons we are here in the first place.
OG is better served by the celebration of our commonality.
The interwebs are full of sites which encourage heated debate, and butt hurt acrimony.
If weed becomes legal the DEA will probably lose funding and have to find another drug to have a war with, like they did with cannabis when alcohol was legalized again after prohibition.
It’s so blatantly obvious that it’s all corrupt control to keep big pharma happy when the science is ignored.
I think the problem is also quite literally, their education. Ya think someone needs brains to get to some of those posts, and honestly, they are lacking in that department many times. Common sense and simple logic often defy them, I honestly think that they don’t even think for a moment that they might be wrong. Stupid people tend to be very one-sided and have tunnel vision, intelligence usually shows itself as an understanding of both sides of an argument.
To quote a man more intelligent than many in those government posts:
that’s pretty much how pot became illegal against the demands of the medical profession who used it in hundreds of formulations that were sold over the counter even mixed with morphine and other shit.
Harry Anslinger was the head of the bureau that policed alcohol prohibition and his job was coming to and end so needed a new drug to demonize and went after pot as it was the ‘lowlifes’ that consumed it and Mexicans so an easy target. Not sure if it was him that started calling pot marijuana but it was at that time to make it sound like something different than the cannabis people were used to.
Ted Smith’s book, Hempology 101 is a wealth of info like that and well worth the $25 I paid to get a personalized signed copy when it came out. He’s one of the original pot warrior types that worked out of Victoria, BC to help medpot patients and pot lovers in general.
A big part of it was the versatility of hemp though more than marijuana. Many powerful and rich men stood to lose a lot if hemp was allowed to replace the products they sold like nylon and paper. Real easy way to get the public on board to prohibit this new wonder product is to vilify it’s relative and get it banned.
That kind of stuff and lots more is in Ted’s book and I’ve known about lots of it for years but it’s nice to have it all in tied up in one bundle.
Jack Herer’s, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1985, is another good read mainly about the hundreds of uses for hemp and it’s seed. I have the book somewhere and the same for a digital copy.
the apology is all mine, I can’t seem to avoid the occasional libertarian ranting I always think all stoners are libertarian considering the way we’ve been treated over the years but maybe not…moving on…good news! Look what’s happening in Texas - as I’ve noted before, Texas also allows hemp/CBD cigarettes which are banned in many “legal” states…
Last year, NORML reported that “much of the national decline resulted from a drop-off in marijuana arrests in Texas in 2019, which experienced over 50,000 fewer marijuana-related arrests last year” than in 2018. In Texas, the second-most populous state, possession of two ounces or less is still a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a maximum fine of $2,000. The 2019 drop in Texas arrests seems to have been driven partly by the legalization of hemp, which required more sophisticated drug testing that was initially hard to arrange.
