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Edwynn -> RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in White House Video Contest (1/30/2012 10:12:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: provfivetine
Yes, the whole smear campaign against cannabis was started by William Randolph Hearst (bastard).
Hearst owned a massive newspaper chain and industrial hemp posed a threat to his empire. He also lost a huge amount of timber land when Poncho Villa's troops reclaimed their land in the Mexican Revolution. Hearst couldn't stand this, and launched a war against industrial hemp. He knew that he couldn't convince Americans to outlaw hemp, since it's a frickin' miracle plant and was used all over America at the time; so he called the plant "marijuana" in order to associate it with Mexicans. He wrote stories of marijuana causing violence and associated it with blacks and Mexicans and used his newspaper for smear campaigns; he was basically responsible for starting "yellow journalism." Somehow, Hearst managed to convince the public that marijuana was evil and when it was outlawed, industrial hemp was lumped in with it.
Others have their hands dirty too... Mellon and DuPont to name a couple.
Howevermuch Hearst and the chemical and the pharma industries were were responsible for initial "Reefer Madness" movies and successful outlawing of the herb (and aside from above post missing out on fact of the latter two having much greater financial interest in the matter than Hearst), society had recovered from it for the most part by the 70's.
But then 'Mr. Deregulation' came along and sent us back to the middle ages regarding government regulation of personal issues.
So then, from your other post we are to have it that Marxism is a concern while in fact having no reasonable expectation or in fact possibility of meaningful effect on society whatsoever, while you so insistently ignore reality as exhibited in this matter?
Get a clue.
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