Dark Seducer
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A New York Medical College team discovered a number of dramatic and striking differences between the drug users and the nonusers. The largest difference by far had to do with religion. Over half of the nonusers (54 percent ) said that they attended religious services. Not one of the users said that they ever attended religious services. The Simon-Gagnon college youth study corroborated these findings. Among men who had tried marijuana, 4 percent attended church frequently, while 36 percent of those who had not tried and did not wish to try marijuana, attended services frequently. Expressed differently, 2 percent of the frequent church attenders had tried pot, while 24 percent of those who said that they attended rarely or never had done so. Political Orientation One of the most empirically verified of all relationships with marijuana use is political ideology and activity. Marijuana users are far more likely to hold what are considered in America today liberal or radical views. The New York Medical College study of private school youths showed that the users (all but two had used marijuana) were far more active and radical politically. All but two of the thirteen users had joined a Vietnam march or demonstration, whereas just over one-third of the nonusers had done so; about two-thirds of the users agreed that the civil rights movement is not "militant enough," while only about one-fifth of the nonusers agreed. In Blum's study of college drug use, a direct and linear relationship between political leftism and the use of any single illicit drug, including marijuana, was found. The more radical the student was, the greater the chance that he used any drug; the more conservative he was, the lower was this chance (The two Marxists in the study had not used marijuana, however; I will touch upon this point presently. ) The CBS study, Generations Apart, also documented the powerful relationship between political ideology and the acceptance or rejection of the marijuana prohibition The more radical the student, the greater were his chances of rejecting the marijuana laws.
President Nixon believed that pot created liberals and that is why he started the war on pot, Reagan just increased the funding for it and made it publicly known he was going after pot smokers. In all actuality it is the other way around, it is because of a persons liberal mindset that he is more willing to experiment with differing states of consciousness. Reagan also believed that smoking "the pot" would give people "the gay disease".
The true story behind the prohibition of pot has a lot to do with Henry Ford. In the early 20th century Henry Ford decided to use hemp fibers to make a car. In an old news reel it shows Ford taking a 20 pound sledge hammer to the hood of a "hemp mobile", the hammer bounced off the hood of the car without leaving so much as a scratch. Edison and Ford were also working to make altenative energy vehicles using a combination of Edisons electricity and hemp seed oil. They were going up against some heavy political players, Bacher and the other steel giants and Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The nail in the coffin for pot and hemp was RACISM, Mexican immigrants were bringing pot across the border as they entered the US looking for work. Southern Whites, still bitter from loosing their slaves and being forced to actually work the fields themselves began to blame every little crime on black and mexicans claiming they were driven insane with lust by the "demon weed".
These three groups formed a very powerful political coalition and with the use of some Fox News type propoganda soon had the uneducated masses (conservatives) believing pot was the root of all evil. Rockefellar, who was instrumental in linking hemp and Marijuana to the same Bill, even stated in his later years that he simply didn't want people to be able to grow fuel (hemp seed oil) in their own back yard, he felt it was "UnAmerican" to not buy it from his corporation.
No matter what the wingnuts that post on here say a new conservative administration will do just as the last one did and go after the med growers with a vengence. They truly believe that pot will create more liberals along with take profit from big Phrama and Big Oil.
President Obama told Eric Holder (the nations head cop) to back off the med growers in the states that have legalized it. Bush and Ashcroft spent billions attacking medical marijuana and ignoring states rights to make their own mind up. Conservatives do not believe in personal freedoms and liberties only corporate freedom and they feel pot will hurt corporate profits and create more liberals in the process.
Do some reasearch and see which party takes away more of your personal freedoms and you will find over the years that it has been the Republicans, over and over, who have denied us the personal freedoms that our founding father intended us to have. They will ignore states rights and raid all of the med marijuana facilities that have sprung up over the last year of liberal control. They want everyone in this country to be a good capitalist christian and in their opinion growing medicine (the demon weed) in your back yard makes you neither.
I am sure the wing nuts on here will continue to give me negative rep points but I could care less, they are on here for one reason and one reason only and that is to spread their propoganda and lies so you will vote against your best interest come election time.
President Nixon believed that pot created liberals and that is why he started the war on pot, Reagan just increased the funding for it and made it publicly known he was going after pot smokers. In all actuality it is the other way around, it is because of a persons liberal mindset that he is more willing to experiment with differing states of consciousness. Reagan also believed that smoking "the pot" would give people "the gay disease".
The true story behind the prohibition of pot has a lot to do with Henry Ford. In the early 20th century Henry Ford decided to use hemp fibers to make a car. In an old news reel it shows Ford taking a 20 pound sledge hammer to the hood of a "hemp mobile", the hammer bounced off the hood of the car without leaving so much as a scratch. Edison and Ford were also working to make altenative energy vehicles using a combination of Edisons electricity and hemp seed oil. They were going up against some heavy political players, Bacher and the other steel giants and Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The nail in the coffin for pot and hemp was RACISM, Mexican immigrants were bringing pot across the border as they entered the US looking for work. Southern Whites, still bitter from loosing their slaves and being forced to actually work the fields themselves began to blame every little crime on black and mexicans claiming they were driven insane with lust by the "demon weed".
These three groups formed a very powerful political coalition and with the use of some Fox News type propoganda soon had the uneducated masses (conservatives) believing pot was the root of all evil. Rockefellar, who was instrumental in linking hemp and Marijuana to the same Bill, even stated in his later years that he simply didn't want people to be able to grow fuel (hemp seed oil) in their own back yard, he felt it was "UnAmerican" to not buy it from his corporation.
No matter what the wingnuts that post on here say a new conservative administration will do just as the last one did and go after the med growers with a vengence. They truly believe that pot will create more liberals along with take profit from big Phrama and Big Oil.
President Obama told Eric Holder (the nations head cop) to back off the med growers in the states that have legalized it. Bush and Ashcroft spent billions attacking medical marijuana and ignoring states rights to make their own mind up. Conservatives do not believe in personal freedoms and liberties only corporate freedom and they feel pot will hurt corporate profits and create more liberals in the process.
Do some reasearch and see which party takes away more of your personal freedoms and you will find over the years that it has been the Republicans, over and over, who have denied us the personal freedoms that our founding father intended us to have. They will ignore states rights and raid all of the med marijuana facilities that have sprung up over the last year of liberal control. They want everyone in this country to be a good capitalist christian and in their opinion growing medicine (the demon weed) in your back yard makes you neither.
I am sure the wing nuts on here will continue to give me negative rep points but I could care less, they are on here for one reason and one reason only and that is to spread their propoganda and lies so you will vote against your best interest come election time.
