Watching the History Channel last night, I saw an interesting documentary about how marijuana became illegal. For a network that caters to a bunch of old, conservative men interested in WWII, it was a very accurate in describing just how inoccuous marijuana is. It went into the propaganda the government put out, how political a lot of the decisions were, mentioned the La Guardia report (take a look at the conclusions), among other things. Anyway, just a whole bunch of information on how harmless pot is and how much propaganda it took to get it illegalized.
There's another one on tonight about opium.
Posted by Fatboy at March 23, 2004 05:57 PMIn case anyone was interested, the opium story was much more conservative, talking about the evils of drugs and the drug epidemics that opium & its derivatives have caused.
Posted by: Fatboy at March 24, 2004 01:10 PMDamn Fatboy, you post some really cool stuff, and no one replies? Well, it was about drugs. Maybe everyone was waiting for me to chime in first...Zing.
BTW, I love that Laguardia report. The man deserves that airport.
Posted by: Chris at March 25, 2004 09:42 PM