[MountHippie]

That was beautiful, Mr Founder.

Another motivation for the fact that marijuana is illegal, imho, is blind ambition and racism. Anslinger was, based on what I have read was only kind of a low level politician before he founded the DEA. Supposedly they pretty much had the C*ke and Her*in thing under control. So how can he make a big name for himself, if he has no major problems to solve. So when the meeting that you mentioned with the big corporations occured, he decided to make Cannabis Sative illegal, create the panic, and then solve the problem. Back then it was mostly Mexicans smoking it, white middle class people didn't know about it, and they were the main voters. So Anslinger didn't care that he was putting down, treating like trash, a whole country of people. It was his ticket to the top.

Then he realized that there aren't a lot of Mexicans in the Eastern Cities. But black jazz musicians were smoking weed. And who cares about black people anyways. So places like NOLA, NYC, StL, Chicago and others that have big jazz scenes were gripped with a fever of crazy black stoned jazz musicians. If you look at really, really old jazz, several songs are about the ganj.

So he needed a way to get the word out. Again, Racism and bling ambition stepped in in the form of William Randolph Hearst. Anything to sell newspapers. And Mexicans can't speak English and most of the black people can't read, so they won't know. What a beautiful, wicked plan. But it was ok cause Hearst needed to increase those newspaper sales, baby.

To the guy who made up the poster to print out about hemp; I LOVE it. The problem though is that most places require approval before allowing you to post something, and I don't know if they would approve of something basically illegal (Even if it is STOOPID that it's illegal.)

Rock on Party People,

The Hippy from the beautiful Mountains of East Tenneessee.