Why marijuana really is illegal (supposedly)

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Post #49,492 by tjsinclair 8/15/02 3:04:03 PM Reply	Why marijuana really is illegal (supposedly) William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper tycoon, has vast timber interests. An inexpensive process for making paper out of hemp is invented, potentially decimating Hearst's lumber investments. Shortly thereafter, Hearst wages a massive anti-hemp (marijuana) campaign across his chain of newspapers. Harry joins in, essentially reading Hearst's editorials verbatim. So they say, anyway. Tom Sinclair "Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
Post #49,501 by Silverlock 8/15/02 3:59:25 PM Reply	Hadn't heard that one. Makes sense though. Re-elect Gore in 2004
Post #49,516 by bepatient 8/15/02 5:16:16 PM Reply	So put that in your pipe and smoke it! You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #49,521 by ben_tilly 8/15/02 7:04:27 PM Reply	You are missing the other half of the story At first it was banned purportedly because it made people violent. A few years later after the "Well, duh" discovery that people smoking it did not become violent, but instead became lethargic, the ban was upheld in the late 40's on testimony that it would make our men so peaceful that they wouldn't be inclined to fight communism. A view which the 60's arguably stands as evidence for... Cheers, Ben Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Post #49,642 by deSitter 8/16/02 9:42:17 PM Reply	Re: Why marijuana really REALLY is illegal (supposedly) What was I talking about? -drl
Post #49,644 by Ashton 8/16/02 9:50:03 PM Reply	Ummmm__________kewl________mon

Why Marijuana is illegal - (Silverlock) - (90) - Aug. 15, 2002, 02:49:34 PM EDT

Why marijuana really is illegal (supposedly) - (tjsinclair) - (5) - Aug. 15, 2002, 03:04:03 PM EDT

Hadn't heard that one. Makes sense though. -NT - (Silverlock) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2002, 03:59:25 PM EDT

So put that in your pipe and smoke it! -NT - (bepatient) - Aug. 15, 2002, 05:16:16 PM EDT

You are missing the other half of the story - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 15, 2002, 07:04:27 PM EDT

Re: Why marijuana really REALLY is illegal (supposedly) - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:42:17 PM EDT

Ummmm__________kewl________mon -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:50:03 PM EDT

Actually, medical effects *are* interesting - (wharris2) - Aug. 15, 2002, 06:08:27 PM EDT

They still smoke it anyway - (orion) - (3) - Aug. 15, 2002, 06:15:18 PM EDT

Dude, you're obsessing with Ellen -NT - (tjsinclair) - (2) - Aug. 15, 2002, 08:17:28 PM EDT

Re: Dude, you're obsessing with Ellen - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:48:59 PM EDT

Yes, Ellen has started using her 15 minutes of fame already. - (orion) - Aug. 17, 2002, 12:52:11 AM EDT

Why I think it ought to stay illegal. - (mmoffitt) - (47) - Aug. 15, 2002, 09:15:04 PM EDT

Now That's!______a hard one to argue against___:( -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 15, 2002, 09:31:15 PM EDT

Re: Why I think it ought to stay illegal. - (deSitter) - Aug. 16, 2002, 10:04:50 PM EDT

Re: Why I think it ought to stay illegal. - (deSitter) - (44) - Aug. 16, 2002, 10:05:51 PM EDT

What always troubled me 'bout the 60's - Ash you listening? - (mmoffitt) - (43) - Aug. 20, 2002, 08:47:31 PM EDT

I dont know if people were more socially responsable - (boxley) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:01:45 PM EDT

I was with you for a while... - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:09:39 PM EDT

Okay - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:18:08 PM EDT

Hmmm.... - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:34:32 PM EDT

I am (barely) quite literally a child of the 60's - (ben_tilly) - (18) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:21:57 PM EDT

There were good deeds done in the 1960's. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:40:40 PM EDT

Note the qualification on my last sentence - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:52:38 PM EDT

And OT: YOU are a Gen-X'er. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (8) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:50:55 PM EDT

Nope - (ben_tilly) - (7) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:59:22 PM EDT

Oh yes you are. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Aug. 21, 2002, 04:54:30 PM EDT

Square peg -> Round hole - (snork) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2002, 05:13:20 PM EDT

Exactly - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2002, 06:59:26 PM EDT

Guess that's something we have in common... - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 22, 2002, 12:08:35 PM EDT

Ben, Cliff, it's called "denial" ;-) -NT - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2002, 12:57:19 PM EDT

Isn't that a river in Egypt? - (snork) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2002, 01:32:10 PM EDT

Good one. You should run for office ;-) -NT - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:14:03 PM EDT

Generalize 3rd hand a bit more and.. - (Ashton) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2002, 01:48:48 AM EDT

Alternate hypothesis for you - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2002, 06:46:42 AM EDT

OT: Ben got the 50,000th post overall -NT - (Yendor) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2002, 01:13:22 PM EDT

Milestone Woot! -NT - (drewk) - Aug. 21, 2002, 02:10:31 PM EDT

Wasn't even looking - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 21, 2002, 06:16:50 PM EDT

OK Man___ I dig the post-prandial 'self-congratulatory' part - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2002, 04:32:08 PM EDT

Re: the Peace Movement - (Silverlock) - Aug. 21, 2002, 10:15:49 AM EDT

Other than the Civil War, the nation was never... - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:46:07 PM EDT

Perhaps. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 20, 2002, 09:49:35 PM EDT

I wondered who that guy was :) - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 20, 2002, 10:09:26 PM EDT

Yep, that's me going the wrong way. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 20, 2002, 10:25:15 PM EDT

Yeah I guess, w/jaundiced ear - (Ashton) - (11) - Aug. 21, 2002, 03:20:16 AM EDT

Very interesting read. Thank you. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 21, 2002, 05:07:07 PM EDT

re Diem - (Another Scott) - Aug. 21, 2002, 06:14:49 PM EDT

WTF was it about the Kennedy family? - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Aug. 21, 2002, 06:52:09 PM EDT

Bingo. I'm equally puzzled. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 21, 2002, 08:13:31 PM EDT

TR was younger. JFK youngest elected. Agree with the rest. -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 21, 2002, 08:31:45 PM EDT

The camelot myth - (boxley) - Aug. 21, 2002, 09:26:20 PM EDT

Re: WTF was it about the Kennedy family? ____[in 20/20] - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2002, 04:43:25 AM EDT

Ike got us into Viet Nam, not Kennedy. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (3) - Aug. 22, 2002, 01:02:13 PM EDT

Actually, it was Truman's fault. >:-) - (Another Scott) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2002, 01:36:11 PM EDT

Revisionist history! It was the French. :-) - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 22, 2002, 03:40:04 PM EDT

And note that Eisenhower hadn't yet sent in the army - (ben_tilly) - Aug. 23, 2002, 07:54:17 AM EDT

What always troubled me 'bout the 60's (huh?) - (wharris2) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2002, 12:18:39 PM EDT

Oasis might be a good word. - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2002, 04:44:31 PM EDT

Good word? OMG ashton and I agree? -NT - (wharris2) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2002, 11:38:47 PM EDT

False alarm - only a little.. - (Ashton) - Aug. 22, 2002, 05:21:57 AM EDT

What I've always wondered - (SpiceWare) - (28) - Aug. 15, 2002, 09:37:24 PM EDT

Document rendered obsolete.. in practice.__ Recently. -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 15, 2002, 09:42:35 PM EDT

It doesn't bother me that "Ellen" might be a stoner chick. - (cwbrenn) - (26) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:03:42 AM EDT

How did she become a dumb*ss? - (orion) - (25) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:47:40 AM EDT

MJ doesn't make you dumb.... - (imric) - (23) - Aug. 16, 2002, 11:02:47 AM EDT

It's not the drugs - (cwbrenn) - (22) - Aug. 16, 2002, 12:52:59 PM EDT

Part of thier market? ROFL - (imric) - (21) - Aug. 16, 2002, 12:56:29 PM EDT

Apple is trying to appeal to new markets. - (orion) - (20) - Aug. 16, 2002, 02:18:54 PM EDT

Your inexperience with 'pot' or potheads - (Ashton) - (17) - Aug. 16, 2002, 05:09:20 PM EDT

Which underscores my point - (cwbrenn) - (2) - Aug. 16, 2002, 05:54:39 PM EDT

It is ironic - (orion) - Aug. 16, 2002, 09:15:19 PM EDT

Heh... - (jb4) - Aug. 22, 2002, 02:19:54 PM EDT

Re: Your inexperience with 'pot' or potheads - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 16, 2002, 10:00:10 PM EDT

Know whatcha mean.. - (Ashton) - Aug. 16, 2002, 10:33:11 PM EDT

My experience with 'potheads' - (orion) - (11) - Aug. 17, 2002, 12:56:44 AM EDT

Ahh.. Nasty stuff. - (Ashton) - (10) - Aug. 17, 2002, 05:08:15 AM EDT

Disagree. - (mmoffitt) - (9) - Aug. 20, 2002, 08:57:09 PM EDT

Nil data. - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2002, 03:55:20 AM EDT

No Connection - (deSitter) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2002, 11:30:56 AM EDT

{snort}________:-\ufffd -NT - (Ashton) - Aug. 21, 2002, 04:49:24 PM EDT

Interesting fact - (orion) - (5) - Aug. 22, 2002, 07:46:28 PM EDT

You're not the Lone Ranger ;-) - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:12:23 PM EDT

Got ya beat. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - Sept. 4, 2002, 05:15:55 PM EDT

I dunno.... - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Sept. 4, 2002, 06:07:38 PM EDT

The Three Amigos! - (orion) - Sept. 4, 2002, 08:54:04 PM EDT

The 'green... - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 4, 2002, 09:57:26 PM EDT

Hey, wait a minute . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 16, 2002, 11:10:11 PM EDT

Uh, yeah, maybe? - (orion) - Aug. 17, 2002, 12:50:44 AM EDT

Raised in American Pop Culture - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:53:54 AM EDT

On Prohibition and Opiates. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 17, 2002, 12:57:18 AM EDT

Well.. you know this - (Ashton) - Aug. 17, 2002, 05:30:38 AM EDT

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