100 years ago today

[Little-Acorn]

On June 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian crown prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, where he had come to inspect his occupying troops in the empire's eastern province.

The shots fired by Serb teenager Gavrilo Princip were used as an excuse to start World War I (then known as the Great War), which was followed decades later by a second world conflict. Together the two wars cost some 80 million Europeans, Russians, and Americans their lives, and ended four empires.

 

[Wyatt earp]

And only one person had the brains enough to vote no to that useless war..a woman

 

[KNB]

Marijuana was legal.

 

[Wyatt earp]

So was cocaine

 

[KNB]

Do you know that the US Federal government currently classifies crack cocaine as a safer medicine than Cannabis? Cocaine is Schedule II and Marijuana is Schedule I according to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.

The 1970 CSA emphasizes that marijuana does not have any medical use. The National Institutes of Health currently lists Cannabis among the safer, more effective natural medicines for fighting cancer.

So which is it? Is marijuana a medicine or not? Is marijuana a safer medicine than crack or not?

The answers do not require any amount of thought at all. Yes, marijuana is medicine. Yes, marijuana is safer than crack cocaine. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 is a lie, just like the Reefer Madness bullshit that made "Marihuana" illegal in 1937.

All of that nonsense should have been put to rest in 1942, but our beloved government (BOTH PARTIES FOR 75 YEARS) has tried to keep the People from remembering the truth:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngc0_mQ5tjE]Hemp For Victory (1942) U.S. Department of Agriculture - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Picaro]

lol, no thread in this sub-forum can go two posts without some bs partisan political sniveling by one side or the other.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Marijuana was legal.

Guns were legal. For everybody.

And the number of shootings was far below what we have in today's heavily-restricted society.