Interesting show on 'U.S. War on Drugs' - History Channel

[trof]

The gummint had a great 'Catch-22' back in the 30s.

You had to have a tax stamp to possess marijuana.
You had to possess the marijuana before you could get the tax stamp.
But possessing marijuana WITHOUT the tax stamp was a felony.
But if you didn't actually possess the pot, you couldn't get the stamp.
Oh...and they never issued the stamp.
gotcha

[tridim]

1. And that act was eventually declared unconstitutional

and replaced by scheduling, which is even worse IMO.

So now Cannabis is schedule I, it "Has no medical value", although people use it as legal medicine all over the world and in the United States. Something just doesn't add up there.

[trof]

3. The older I get, the more I discover that this country

ain't a bit like what they taught me in high school American History.

[Ezlivin]

2. And if you saved a book of the Marijuana Tax Stamps you'd get a free bong

It's really time for marijuana to be treated exactly like beer and wine. The only reason it's not is because of the money people are making from it being illegal, not because it is any health threat.

If it were legalized, taxed and regulated we would all be the better for it.

[trof]

4. I agree.

We been bamboozled.
And we are becoming more and more easily bamboozled.

[JoDog]

5. History Channel miniseries

A few years ago, they made a miniseries called "Hooked: Illegal Drugs And How They Got That Way". Each episode focuses on a different drug, its history and what happened when it hit the United States. It is re-ran every now and then. I highly recommend it for anyone curious about the social and legal histories of pot, cocaine and opium.