gmo said:
Quite ironic, since a little over a year ago that is the only word that people talked about.
I believe that their is a conspiracy between major pharmaceutical/big business in the United States that keeps MJ illegal. Money, in some way, is playing a huge role.
Ding Ding Ding !!!
Think of all the jobs created by the illegal status of weed .... everything from drug tests to prison construction supplies ....
But the reason they are able to pull it off .... IMHO is because human nature. We are tribal. There has always been a sense of separation in our nature, this thing that makes us separate, either by color or language or borders or class. Whoever has the upper hand is the one who decides who is beneath them. Industry is at the top of the food chain, government policy is their protector.
Industry solidified their marriage with government when our leaders accepted a 100 million dollar bail out from JP Morgan a hundred years ago. Up until that time, our presidents (depending on their party affiliation) fought back and forth over the issue of the constitutionality of a National (and later Federal) banking system. It is my belief that this history of intertwined motives was the reason our leaders jumped into the pit to bail out big business/banking recently.
We are at the bottom of the food chain. We have to be manipulated and controlled to keep the cogs moving. Propaganda is the tool for keeping us in line.
If you don't believe you can be manipulated, just look around your room and count how many things you own that you didn't even know you needed till someone in advertising told you that you needed it. They study us - they know what they are doing and they know that the ones to fear are the ones that can't be brainwashed - the outsiders. And since there MUST be a marginalized sector, we are the natural choice since color, sex and age are no longer acceptable dividers.
The whole war on pot was invented to protect the cotton and drug industry. The machine (business/gov) used emotional factors as propaganda to manipulate the masses. Marijuana in particular was made illegal to marginalize a sector of the population that was primarily Mexican out of rage against the Mexican border issues and Pancho Villa murdering and raiding New Mexico and Texas towns along the border in 1916. Until then it wasn't even called Marijuana here. No one is going to admit that now, not since they realized just how much money the war on drugs has made them. We are the subculture. We are needed. There has to be someone the masses need protection from. I could go on and on but I can't roll a joint and type at the same time... so OK, rant over.
