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A West Virgina Sheriff back in the 80s said something to the effect of, "I don't mind pot at all, but if they make it legal, there won't be enough funding to support a single police force in rural West Virgina."
But pot can make someone become schizophrenic don't ya know???
Actually, while I am supportive of a legalization of marijuana, I am witnessing perhaps this very thing right now with a lifelong friend. I think that he had some sort of disposition for it anyway, but the doctors strongly suggest that his heavy pot use in the last dozen or so years is what has caused it. He is currently in a mental institution, and from the way he was behaving, should be.
Actually, while I am supportive of a legalization of marijuana, I am witnessing perhaps this very thing right now with a lifelong friend. I think that he had some sort of disposition for it anyway, but the doctors strongly suggest that his heavy pot use in the last dozen or so years is what has caused it. He is currently in a mental institution, and from the way he was behaving, should be.
But pot can make someone become schizophrenic don't ya know???
Not only that, but they all become heroin addicts and grab butcher knives and run in crowds, randomly slashing people. This happens several times every day.
Not only that, but they all become heroin addicts and grab butcher knives and run in crowds, randomly slashing people. This happens several times every day.
Right, because remember pot is the gateway drug! If you smoke pot, that means you're gonna do other drugs!
This two hour program, while very good and informative, is unwilling to REALLY examine the reason that marijuana is illegal. And if you guessed the reason is 'money', you're right! I don't know all the details and never cared enough to research it in depth, but I've heard that DuPont had friends in high places in the White House in 1927. By 1930 the illegality of marijuana was booming (remember the usefulness of hemp, and it being a "cash crop" replaced by man made fibers, thanks DuPont) and by 1935 it was illegal in half of the country. That was done on a state level, and likely came on orders/suggestions from Washington. And then you had Vietnam, widespread usage everywhere (and exposure to the drug by returning veterans) and Nixon starting the DEA and making users "criminals" in the eyes of the government. And that's coming from a known criminal himself.
As with everything "illegal" in this country you have to dig below the headlines. In one way, shape or form, it boils down to control and money. Usually in concert with one another.
Indeed. The earliest debate about marijuana prompted The Laguardia Report and, later, Nixon's panel of experts. That committee recommended decriminalization...Nixon was not happy.
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