Cannabis
Related: About this forumHere are a couple reasons why Republicans fear 'marihuana'
Harley Wood as party girl Burma Blondie Roberts is high on giggle weed in the 1936 exploitation film Marihuana.
Are you wondering why our 19th century Republican legislators in both Minnesota and Wisconsin refuse to recognize the majority of their constituents who want legal marijuana?
I can refer you to a couple of old movies that sum up their fears. Yes, fears. So much of the Republican agenda is fear-based, particularly their fear of marijuana.
Most everyone has seen or at least knows about the propaganda film Reefer Madness, made in 1936 during the reign of bizarre drug czar Harry J. Anslinger, whose mission it was to criminalize marijuana because, as he once said, The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
This is the guy who started spreading the myths about marijuana that our antebellum Republican legislators still spread to this day, the biggest lie of which is that marijuana is a gateway drug leading to cocaine and heroin use.
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oasis
(51,703 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,759 posts)from the prison industrial complex. Once someone has a record, it's a pipeline to prison and money for private investors. The USA has the largest incarceration rate in the world.
MatthewG.
(362 posts)Republicans are basically scared of social changes.
Stopping social change for its own sake is, after securing deficit-fueled tax cuts, probably the most important item on the GOP agenda.
If all else fails, the Republican argument against any proposed social shift will always reduce down to a pathetic this endangers CHILDREN, do you hear me, CHILDREN!!
brewens
(15,359 posts)inbred rednecks that would have wanted me fired if they knew I smoked weed as a younger guy. Of course they were usually alcohol junkies that showed up hungover on their asses. This was at a Budweiser distributor.
If legalized, when the sky doesn't fall, it shows how full of shit they have been all along. That's what they are frightened of.
The Wizard
(12,863 posts)brainchild of William Randolph Hurst as hemp threatened his monopoly on wood based newsprint. Hemp was Hurst's only competitor, and Hurst used his media empire to rail against hemp. This led to the destruction of millions of innocent victims' lives and the negative effects on their families. It's always about the money.
mitch96
(14,652 posts)He was Mr Prohibition and when the liquor laws were repealed he did not have much of a job left,.
So being the anti MJ guy was right up his ally..Before Hurst and Anslinger MJ was no big deal..YMMV
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The Wizard
(12,863 posts)were primarily concerned with their income. They set the wheels in motion to destroy innocent lives. and the did it for money. It's not a gateway, but rather an exit ramp from opiates . It's also a very effective remedy for PTSD with few side effects.
Big Pharma's ability to bribe law makers is seriously impinged by legal cannabis.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,957 posts)Phoenix61
(17,641 posts)Super happy hemp is now legal. Its a great crop and has so many uses.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Republicans claim to be all about personal freedoms, but in fact they mean freedom to force you to do what they think is right.