Marijuana - Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way (History Channel)

I think your disillusionment is misplaced. The ‘so called’ traditional hippies were accomplishing something with their message of peace. Richard Nixon went to draconian measures to shut them up. He started a war on them via cannabis.

The ‘so called’ traditional hippies of which you speak, used common sense and realized Richard Nixon was willing to cross the line and spin disinformation, while mainstream media remained silent, or willing participants. Martyrs can’t get jobs, feed their families, etc. At that point in time, people only knew what they were being told on the nightly news. And the nightly news were active participants in the spin of Richard Nixon. I often wonder if they were participants out of fear? Fear of becoming targets? Once the ‘anti-drug’ warriors started spinning disinformation, anyone who disagreed was labeled ‘druggie’. ‘Druggie’ became the ‘Commi’ of the 60’s and early 70’s.

I grew up in the 70’s. I didn’t know about America’s positive hemp past. I didn’t know what had been said about cannabis, by great leaders of our past. I didn’t know the wonders of hemp. I thought it was a plant, veterans were bringing back from Vietnam. I didn’t know cannabis had medicinal qualities, other than ‘it helped me tie a knot, when I needed to’. The first time I read the ‘Serenity Prayer’, I thought, how profound. That’s what cannabis does for me. Did ya ever hear, ‘when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on’? Cannabis hemp makes the best rope, mentally and physically.

Perhaps I am disillusioned by the apparent lack of accomplishment from the traditional hippie during a time when, despite all their bravado, they failed to get anything accomplished at all. Frankly, I wish the government would legalize all vices. It is a matter of personal liberty. I just know that as soon as they do a brand new generation will develop, who instead of trying to change things, smokes their lives away in self-medicated apathy, much like drunkards do. Then we lose another group to selfish indifference. I prefer the population pissed off rather than high. It makes for a better revolution.

Al Gore? The king of climate change propaganda? You realize that he has invested millions into green business right? I doubt he has done this out of the goodness of his heart. He knows that if you can scare enough people, they will buy your product. The truth of the matter is that Manbearpig is not real. Climate change can be explained by something as simple as the sun's gravitational pull on earth. Current, and if you listen to him, "the internet" are the only decent things to come from this guy. Although, the recent censorship on this website is threatening to destroy even that accomplishment.

who found out about marijuana??

Bushido, I wish I could argue your points, but we agree on far too much of what you stated. Your view of potheads, leaves a little to be desired. Where did you gain such a negative opinion of cannabis and those who consume it? If you met me, you would not know I ever smoked cannabis. Dirty hippies, smoking cannabis is not truthful. Many people who smoke cannabis, are' not' easily recognizable. Don't judge an entire subject by the few who are willing to admit they consume cannabis. Many are in the closet because they have jobs, which require drug testing. In America, one can loose their job, due to consuming cannabis in the privacy of their own homes, on their own time. That's just crazy. Drug testing has silenced many voices in America. One does not have to be bad at their job to loose it. Many times urine means more than abilities..

As far as political parties, I think politics in America has been taken over by special interests on both sides. Too many politicians choose politics over people. I wanted Al Gore for President and Chuck Hagel for V.P. I wanted both parties to run the country and end the politics of division.

"You may not think we need environmentally friendly products, but that's your opinion and you are free to not buy any environmentally friendly products. This is still a free country."

"Environmentally friendly" products are merely a scam predicated on the myth that is global warming to make the rich even richer. Marijuana legalization would come about naturally if we fixed the system that relies on greed and corruption in order to function.

They (media, government, lobbyists) fan the flames of hysteria about another cataclysm and out of terror over losing our mundane but passable existences, we eat up every piece of shit they sell, further perpetuating the corruption through the direct funding of it. Y2K, terrorism, global pandemic, economic collapse, 2012....AHHHH!!!

What do we do? I know! Let's install more security to better monitor the "threat", tax the hell out of the citizens to save the banks, dump more money into Big Pharma to fight "disease", spread global warming hype to sell Al Gore backed services and products to make him and his puppet master rich.

I voted for Obama, but after seeing how he has catered to Corporate America as much as he has, I am close to relegating him to George W. Bush status. At least Bush had ignorance and simple-mindedness as an excuse. Obama is too smart to not see what is really going on.

As far as me "frying" the bigger fish goes, I would love to. The problem is that instead of fixing the system, too many potheads are selfishly focused on a single symptom of the overwhelmingly infected and dying "democratic" establishment that is the U.S. Much like the pathetic hippies of the 60's and 70's, they cannot see past their next hit in order to bring about true change at the top instead of trying to hack away at a single hydra head in futility.

Movements need numbers. Numbers require people to be angry, lose the apathy, and most importantly, take action. We are all too worried about our joints and iPhones to care, it would seem. You may claim that it is a free country, but what do you base this theory on? That we're not China? Give it time...

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

The hippies were full of shit. Most of them have grown up and taken jobs with the corporations they so clumsily rallied against, I don't blame people for not listening to them. It is hard to take a shabbily dressed, dirty pothead, too concerned with their next high, seriously.

I am not saying that the War on Drugs is not bullshit, but as the saying goes "We have bigger fish to fry" when our economy has all but collapsed due to corporate greed, the income disparity keeps growing, the global warming nuts keep pushing their agenda to sell more "green" products to an unsuspecting public, and our civil liberties are being stripped from us one Patriot Act at a time. I suppose this is all okay, though as long as the potheads can self-medicate themselves all the while.

I prefer marijuana for Crohn's disease. When do I get it? Will I ever get it? I could use it. But without it, the torturous days are fantastic.

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BUSHIT

If you had listened to hippies we would be burning HEMP OIL and Dubai would still be a pile of sand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is exactly why I hate crybaby potheads. Our country is falling apart at the seams due to corrupt politicians, corporate greed, and insanely complex international conspiracies and all they can think about is getting their weed legalized. If the hippies hadn't spent so much time blazed out of their minds in the 60's and 70's, they may have actually accomplished something worthwhile.

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underthebus you need to learn what the word "news" means. This is the second time you seem to have pulled this one that I've seen.

Something published in 2007 is not news in 2010.

I appreciate that you seem to have a brand new website that you are apparently trying to drum up business for, but please do not inflict your catch up on the news channel. There are plenty of other tags to use.

Btw if that site is hosting this in the US 'The history channel" is going to want some money from them.

American politicians have used 'madness' for too long. They know, yet they continue to spin disinformation. I don't know if it is ignorance, or finances, but they are wrong to spin 'madness' without 'real' facts to back up their 'madness'. It's time to hold politicians accountable! Cannabis hemp is illegal, because they refuse to really address the facts. Shame on them!

Here are a few gems of 'madness' from Presidents of our recent past:

"I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan

In a textbook example of fear manipulation, Nixon warned the country that a plague of unimaginable proportions was about to engulf the nation. “The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency,” he said. To fight the pushers on their own terms, he would need emergency powers — preventive detention, unorthodox strike forces, more freedom to search, wire tap, and arrest.

Here are a few gems of 'wisdom' from Presidents of our early years, before spin and disinformation became the norm:

"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
- George Washington, U.S. President

"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
- John Adams, U.S. President

Who do you believe? Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan? Or, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Adams? I personally believe Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington and Adams! It's time to choose! We can't afford to follow the course of 'madness'. The costs are too high.

fuck so many decades of lies

Well i think it was Harry J. Anslinger that got Richard M. Nixon in on the gig...