In the 1930's things were a bit different than today. Public education has improved markedly and we now can get news in an instant where they would sometimes have to wait days for news to travel. This would allow for all sorts of manipulation of the facts and back then people were lucky to ever get the facts. People would get their news from what they saw on the Newsreels at the local theater and facts were for the most part embellished or even fabricated to fit the mood they wanted the country in. So it's no wonder a movie such as "Reefer Madness" would scare people half to death. The cinema coupled with the Hearts "yellow journalism" campaign against marijuana was enough to brain wash a generation and we have over 70 years of prohibition propaganda to straighten out the lies.
It's frustrating to know what something does and be unable to refute it I remember all the negative propaganda of the early 60's when cannabis was first becoming popular I first smoked cannabis while in Thailand with some friends of mine I wasn't prepared for the effects and needless to say I was taken back by what I experienced. It was some very good quality herb and I wasn't for sure just what to expect from it so my first time was not all that pleasurable. After that however, I learned to enjoy the experience. It amazes me now at how many people could be brain washed into believe all the lies.
What bothers me most are how organizations such as the Kentucky State Police and the Family Foundation along with other anti-cannabis organizations can still get by with using out dated erroneous information to defend their positions and they are never questioned The media just allows them to question what legalization would do to the children without ever considering what the current prohibition is doing to them now They fear having to answer those uncomfortable questions about something they have ignored for so long "Daddy how come you always told me that pot was bad but now they say it cures cancer?" "Daddy who's lying?". They use "the children" like terrorist use women and children as human shields. Let me say this the figures haven't changed since Nixon threw the Shaffer report in the trash and started the war on cannabis. The only change is now we have synthetic cannabis that municipalities are scrambling to make illegal and when they do there will be something else. Of course with cannabis illegal there is money to be made by our "Prison Industrial Complex" and those folks who make money off counselling people.
I have honestly heard the "Gateway Theory" mentioned recently. That was debunked 20 years ago and they still bring it up and no one calls them on it. A "Gateway Theory" is a convenient store offering any size carbonated beverage for 99 cents. It's easy for people who have never been there, never gone out into the night and purchased a "bag of weed" to imagine anything goes on in such a transaction but that is just showing their ignorance. The first law on the street is your money talks your age, sex, religion nothing else matters and the street isn't like 7/11 you may go searching for one thing and all you find is something entirely different because everyone is out of weed So you've got money and you buy what is available. Cannabis is the Gateway only because that's what you went to get in the first place. But we let them get by with it. We let them call it a gateway drug only because we can't jump up and say your wrong without branding ourselves as pot smokers and as susceptible to ridicule.. We need to stand up to these lies.
The most offensive defense of prohibition comes from the Kentucky State police who insist that if cannabis were made legal, speaking of Industrial hemp, they wouldn't be able to tell whether someone is growing medicinal cannabis in the field illegally. I cannot believe that our State Police are that misinformed about cannabis. Cannabis is a plant that has two sexes. It's existence depends on the male pollinating the female at the right time in order to produce the seeds. The male produces the pollen and the female produces THC ( a sticky substance on the buds) to attract the pollen and produce seeds. Industrial hemp fields will contain both male and female plants and they will grow much taller and woody than a plants grown for medicinal purposes... Here's the key to this equation; to get the best medicinal cannabis buds the plants must be female and they must be unpolluted. If the buds get pollinated even the slightest bit they will go to seed and your smoking material wont have the same effect as if the plant were isolated and allowed to produce as much THC as possible In short only a fool would plant anything in a field of Hemp But they say these things and get by with it...
I guess I'm just tired of being 63, 64 next month and know what I know and still have to find someone who knows someone, who has a buddy, whose cousin scored a quarter pound last week and he'll sell you a bag as big as your pinky for a 100 bucks. It's insanity. There is no logical reason that I shouldn't be able to walk any father than I would have to to get a pack of cigarettes or six pack of beer and pick up something for the evening to smoke on, come back and watch the game, invite over some friends, work in your shop, do whatever you want to do but do it the way you want to. They shouldn't be allowed to lie like they have been and not be called on it. We need to start standing up and let them know we know they are lying.
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