Hold on.  Let me spark up some R. Metz before viewing this…

Viewed the vid.  Okay, now I’m really fucking pissed off.  As usual, racism and corporate greed determine U.S. domestic and foreign policies.

Jim Crow laws are obviously still alive and well in America… all the more reason to re-legalize hemp in order to move away from the colonial, master-slave, “white-man’s burden”, greedy capitalistic bullshit paradigm.  Old white dudes and their racist, selfish, greedy money schemes need to just STFU and stop dictating our domestic and foreign policies already.

This short clip is important for exposing the true history behind the racist and corporate greedy motives that were also totally anti-environment regarding the criminalization of hemp.  So fuKKKed up!  As usual.  Thanks, Uncle Sam.  Hope you get your old white ass kicked this November!

I’m glad to see an attempt to educate the public, especially the voting public, on an aspect of the prohibition of pot.  What I have not seen in the campaign for prop 19 is any discussion whatsoever about creating industries and jobs in the areas of making products from Hemp.  Nothing about paper, nothing about biofuels, nothing about protein powders and food, nothing about clothing and fibers.  I think they are passing by an opportunity to appeal to a larger, more supportive electorate who currently think marijuana has only one thing to offer.

@ Hawkwind:  I totally agree.  It’s going to take a massive public-awareness campaign of the vast industrial and household uses of hemp to appeal to the misinformed non-stoner voters.  The medicinal uses of marijuana are just a small fraction of the hemp plant’s production potential and value, in addition to it simply being more cost-effective AND more environmental friendly to produce for paper products than the clear-cutting of ancient forests as we’ve already witnessed with the destruction of most of the redwood forests in California thanks to major fucking SOB’s like Pacific Lumber.

Unlike California native pines, hemp is a versatile and adaptable plant that can be grown in almost any condition from desert to snow.  It renders the destruction of forests totally obsolete.  And anyone who’s been to Northern Cal knows that “selective-cutting” is complete bullshit and still totally detrimental and counter-intuitive to preserving forest life.

Wouldn’t suprise me at all if big alcohol is the new Hearst/DuPont anti-weed lobby.
Last week on Tru TV, I saw a two-part Cops at Mardi Gras. It was amazing how violent the drunks were, almost all were arrested because of violent street fights.  For some reason, in the second episode they decided to focus on “drug users”.  All of the stoners they busted were just standing quietly on the sidewalk, just chillin’ and watching the event.  It made me so angry that they would waste time harrasing mellow people who were not bothering anybody. In fact, if everyone there was smoking up instead of drinking, they might not even need cops around.  Fack!  The Irony of it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Sw4k-cvCM

When discussing Prop 19 I make it a point to mention that doctors made money during alcohol prohibition by prescribing whiskey. I also mention that it makes sense that prohibition ended during the depression, ending an unsustainable, costly policy.

These two factoids, in my experience, tend to make sense to people. They also tend to reflect on how little they know about the history of alcohol prohibition that they take for granted as a bad idea.

As always, the remedy is the same: counter the fear with education, education, and more education!