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Prohibition FAIL!

October 15, 2010

The new HBO series, Boardwalk Empire, is as accurate a depiction of the follies of prohibition as you’ll read in any book.

But for the non-MTV generation of those among us, here’s a direct quote from Marijuana by William Goodwin:
[ Drug Education Library, (58-59) Copyright 2002 Lucent Books. ISBN:1-56006-916-3 ]

Today alcohol prohibition is generally viewed as a total failure. Prohibition not only failed to prevent alcohol consumption, but making the alcohol business illegal put it in control of criminals who used increasingly violent means to control the market. Alcohol prohibition created a huge illegal business with extensive smuggling and secret domestic manufacturing operations. Illegality increased the prices of alcohol and the huge profits that resulted made alcohol smugglers and dealers very wealthy. The dealers and smugglers, in turn, commonly used their riches to bribe police and government officials into ignoring their illegal activities.

Alcohol prohibition pales in comparison to the failure that is Marijuana prohibition. (Actually cannabis. Marijuana is a made up pejorative term used to demonize cannabis, promote racism, and incite fear.)

Yes We Cannabis T-Shirt Gets You Trespassing Charge

July 14, 2010

Medical marijuana might be legal in Colorado, and favored by more than half of the most recent voters, but wearing a “Yes We Cannabis” t-shirt yeswecannabis teeshirt Yes We Cannabis T Shirt Gets You Trespassing Chargewill get you a 45-minute police interrogation riddled with threats and a trespass citation, according to Rob Corry, the attorney for John Gailey, a Colorado medical marijuana patient.

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According to Jessica Corry, who’s representing Gailey in tandem with her husband, fellow attorney Rob Corry, Gailey and his girlfriend visited the Aurora mall last Saturday and bought a Denver Broncos hat. But shortly after making the purchase, he was stopped by a security guard quickly joined by colleagues and representatives of the Aurora Police Department. They told him he could take off the “Yes We Cannabis” T-shirt, wear it inside-out, or leave.
Gailey turned down all three of these options, arguing that he was simply exercising his right to free speech. And besides, numerous mall stores sell marijuana-themed products, including Spencer’s Gifts, a national chain.
The response from guards and officers was “a 45-minute police interrogation riddled with threats and a trespass citation,” says Corry. Gailey was also told he’s banned from shopping at the mall for a year.

WOW! It’s amazing that they didn’t Taze him like this Florida man who died from being tazed for marijuana posession.

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