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As soon as this Thursday, November 5, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on an amendment that will legally prevent some of the government's top advisers from even discussing the idea of legalizing or decriminalizing drugs as a solution to the failed "war on drugs."
Yes, you read that right. The Senate just might censor its own policy advisers from giving science-based advice.
The censorship amendment's author, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), is trying to attach the speech prohibition onto an otherwise positive bill that will create a blue ribbon commission to study our nation's failed criminal justice and drug policies. The commission is supposed to make recommendations for ways to improve the system, but how can they do that with the blindfold that Sen. Grassley wants to put on them? Please take action below and tell your senators to oppose the censorship amendment!
Yep, Grassley sucks, I just wish he was the only tool in Washington trying to shut down free speech.
I have a feeling that some Dems will join the majority of people who will be Republican on this. Don't want to see the War on Drugs ended. Too many companies filling their pockets.
I guarantee the paper and logging industries are major players in this game. Cannabis paper is cheaper to manufacture, stronger, better quality and since the source is essentially a weed, readily & easily renewable.
Buggered if I know why it was banned here - I think it was just pure ignorance. Having thought about it, yes, it was pure ignorance rather than an economic reason. That of course is not to dispute anything said in previous posts as my comments - as are yours - are location-specific.
Take Harry J. Anslinger, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who, in 1937, said, "There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers," he said. "Their satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."
5. October 1972. Joe Cocker given four hours to leave the country
Joe Cocker under arrest for possessing marijuana in 1972.
After a concert in Adelaide on October 13, Cocker got high backstage with a little help from his friends, booze and marijuana. He was in bed fast asleep when police raided his motel room at 10am the next morning and arrested him and six of his entourage for possession, took them down to the station and locked them up.
Cocker pleaded guilty and was bailed for $1000. But at Festival Hall five days later, Cocker yelled out: "In five years marijuana will be legalised in Australia, and the same cat who is trying to throw us out now will be smoking it himself ."
The next day immigration minister Jim Forbes gave Cocker four hours to leave the country. Marijuana is still not legal, but Cocker has toured Australia another 10 times.
Yep, Grassley sucks, I just wish he was the only tool in Washington trying to shut down free speech.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality.
Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' aka REEFER MADNESS:
a violent narcotic.
acts of shocking violence.
incurable insanity.
soul-destroying effects.
under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an ax.
more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance. Some things never change. Now it's Fox Noise that fills this void.The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
I guarantee the paper and logging industries are major players in this game. Cannabis paper is cheaper to manufacture, stronger, better quality and since the source is essentially a weed, readily & easily renewable.
This has nothing to do with the 1st amendment. It is simply one way to prevent the legalization of drugs, And that is it's entire intent.
While I do believe that industrial Hemp should not be illegal, and that there are many many product that could be made from it. Please remember that you cannot get high from industrial hemp.
I notice how the left wants it legalized not for industry but for recreation. Two different products.
Legalize Industrial Hemp
Do not legalize Marijuana.
This has nothing to do with the 1st amendment. It is simply one way to prevent the legalization of drugs, And that is it's entire intent.
While I do believe that industrial Hemp should not be illegal, and that there are many many product that could be made from it. Please remember that you cannot get high from industrial hemp.
I notice how the left wants it legalized not for industry but for recreation. Two different products.
Legalize Industrial Hemp
Do not legalize Marijuana.
I'm sure as fuck not on the left, but this is one of the very few areas that I do agree with them, both should be legal.
