Mns wrote:
Prohibition is what happens when you let WOMEN run a country.
FIXT
Anyone who is even mildly informed about the history of prohibitionist movements in this country knows that they were predominantly female. In fact, prohibition votes never passed anywhere until after our idiot male ancestors fucked up and gave women the right to vote (a move that started the slow decline of our nation, IMO). All that followed out of prohibition of alcohol followed out of prohibition of other substances: increased usage/interest, organized crime, and corruption of government officials.
Cannabis regulation only became an issue because of the relation between the drug and hemp, which directly competed with powerful financial interests like pulp and logging industries...and this mainly because William Randolph Hearst ran a smear campaign against the drug as a cheap shot at hemp because he was heavily invested in timber. In fact, the term marijuana was introduced by Hearst as a means of tying the drug to Mexicans (we used to be a fairly racist lot, if you'll recall).
Let us not forget that the Irish around the time of prohibition were for the most part strict Catholics, and not a one of them had an issue with being rotten drunks...as were a lot of Southerners. Don't confuse dumb bitches with nutty zealots, bro.
Your Pal,
Jubber
