bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) (05/08/86)
In article <1448@udenva.UUCP> showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore) writes: >>Marijuana, cocaine, LSD, heroin, and speed are illegal >>because these drugs are addictive to most people. Alcohol and caffiene >>are not addictive to most people so they are legal. >> >> Eric Mading >> Computer Science Department >> UW-Madison >LSD is not addictive. Taking it over >long periods of time can cause flashbacks, but it is not addictive. There >are conflicting reports on marijuana. Caffeine, like most stimulants >(amphetamine, nicotine, etc.) is highly addictive. Alcohol, caffeine, and >tobacco are legal because they are older drugs that people were taking long >before anyone got the idea to outlaw certain substances. When this country was started, people could grow anything in their backyards and do anything to their bodies that they wanted. Some of our founding fathers grew "hemp" in their "backyards". Marijuana was made illegal because at the time it was outlawed ('30s), the main users were blacks and hispanics -- very few first-class white folks would have been affected, so they cracked down. Much of their propaganda said that it also made folks sex-crazed and murders etc etc to scare the majority of the population into supporting the measure. After prohibition ended, the federal booze-hounds were soon to lose their jobs -- so what did they do? They commissioned propaganda films and unscientific "medical studies" showing the evils of marijuana; scaring the public into giving them what they wanted. Of course, the mafia was probably involved in this too -- they were about to lose one of their biggest sources of income. Today, the mafia is still involved in blocking the legalization of marijuana -- again they still stand to lose much money -- it was estimated last year that pot was the biggest cash crop here in California. All those nice tax-free dollars! If it was legalized, many people would lose a lot of money -- people would grow openly it in their backyards and Phillip Morris (one of the big tobacco companies) would be selling joints in liquor stores. (Smoking is bad for you in any form -- perhaps they would also sell "food items") Enough for now. -- Amu, ne armu! Andy Beals bandy@lll-crg.arpa {ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,qantel,pyramid}!lll-crg!bandy LLNL, P.O. Box 808, Mailstop L-419, Livermore CA 94550 (415) 423-1948
steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (05/09/86)
> > >LSD is not addictive. Taking it over > >long periods of time can cause flashbacks Promises, promises . . . I had to pay for it every time I took it. I never got one free trip (flashback). -- scc!steiny Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 (408) 425-0382
steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (05/09/86)
In article <275@lll-lcc.UUcp>, bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) writes: > > Marijuana was made illegal because at the time it was outlawed > ('30s), the main users were blacks and hispanics -- very few > first-class white folks would have been affected, so they cracked > down. Much of their propaganda said that it also made folks > sex-crazed and murders etc etc to scare the majority of the > population into supporting the measure. > In "Cerimonial Chemistry" Thomas Szaz makes this point. He also points out that the reason Opium was made illegal was because of intense racial hatred of the Chinese. Early in this century the labor unions hated the Chinese who were percieved as taking away jobs from white people. Opium offered them some measure of relief from their existance, so it was taken away. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny @ Don Steiny Software 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 (408) 425-0382