[420 Girl]

Over the last few decades I've been advocating the re-legalization of cannabis, hemp, aka marijuana, pot, weed, reefer, etc. The two most common comments I've gotten are "you don't see a person come home and beat their wife, kids or family dog after a night of smoking pot like you do sometimes when they've been out drinking," or "in spite of my objections my kids indulge in intoxicating substances; I'd rather they just smoke pot."

To counter these and other pro-pot sentiments our government comes out with lie after lie intended to induce fear. One lie is that the pot available today is far more potent than it was in the '60s and '70s. Hogwash. Suppressed government studies show this is just not the case, yet the lies continue.

Lies are nothing new when it comes to marijuana. In 1968, I was busted for pot and my poor ol' Southern Baptist "lips that touch mine will never touch wine" grandma was beside herself with grief. She was sure I was going to end up in the nut house or worse.

Then one morning she opened up her newspaper and there was a picture of a marijuana plant. Her first words were, "They lied to me! They put my grandson in prison just for smoking silly ol' rabbit weed." She was so relieved to find out that evil marijuana was not jimson weed (aka loco weed) like government and Hearst newspaper propaganda had convinced her it was.

During the infamous 1937 marijuana tax hearings, pot was never referred to as cannabis or hemp but just as marijuana. Included were such racist quotes as "Big-lipped n------ will entice white women to listen to jazz music and smoke marijuana so they can have sex with them." The mere thought of a black man having sex with a white woman was totally unacceptable, so of course the tax act passed with flying colors.

So nothing really has changed. Fact is in 1917 it was Chinese men luring white women into opium dens to have sex with them. That got the Harrison Tax Act passed.

You'd think that after 20,000 years of humankind using pot, if there was something wrong or harmful with its use it would have manifested itself by now.

So why the lies? To protect the profitability of Big Oil, Pharma, etc. After all, unfortunately, we've become a nation by the corporation/money, of the corporation/money, and for the corporation/money. It's all about money, not justice. That's so sad!


NewsHawk: Ganjarden: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: trib.com
Author: JOE DePAUL
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