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(Source: Grass: The History of Marijuana)
Official Truth 1: If you smoke it, YOU WILL KILL PEOPLE.
around the 1920s, propaganda was being spread that the killer mexican weed gave mexicans superpowers, and in El Paso a mexican allegedly went crazy while high and killed a man. One of the first propaganda films was about a man killing another man while high.
Official Truth 2: If you smoke it, YOU WILL GO INSANE
Im sure most of you have heard of the classic, "reefer madness" film and have heard the term "reefer madness propaganda". Well, this is what they're referring to. In this classic propaganda filled film, upper class white men (the best kinda people in the 30s!) and a teenager slowly go insane while being "addicted" to marijuana. People get killed in the movie, and one man actually goes into an insane asylum. It's fuckin rediculous.
Official Truth 3: If you smoke it, you will become a HEROIN ADDICT!!
Im sure you all know this one. Today known as the gateway drug theory, remember, most H users started on marijuana. Also, most H users brushed thier teeth at some point in their lives, lets go ahead and outlaw that too. Oh, and im sure they've drank water, so say goodbye to that shit because itll get you addicted to heroin!
Official Truth 4 : If you smoke it, you will lose all motivation, become lazy, a loser, and a withdrawl from society
Of course, what perfect propaganda for the 60s hippie era! Thanks to so many acidhead, non bathing hippies (not saying all of them were, just some) it was pretty easy to convince the middle class white man that marijuana is just a doper drug with those dirty hippies as a perfect example, when in fact a lot of hippies did actually bathe, and were very spiritual and good people. This "truth" is still widely believed in today, because the lazy teenagers smoking it will always be around, but they're not the majority.
Official Truth 5: If you smoke it, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. WE DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE, BUT THEY'RE BAD. YEP, TERRIBLE.
Now it was time for Nixon to just blame marijuana for everything. "Well, the argument is that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, and alcohol causes many cases of mental illness a year, so imagine what marijuana does" Come on. Just hopeless. But, no matter how hopeless it was, people bought it. I'm reminded of a study that may have been commissioned by a scientist under Nixon i'm not sure, they study showed many heavy dangers of marijuana, only to later be discreteted because it was found out that the scientist was literally suffocating the monkeys with marijuana smoke, sending so much smoke to their lungs they couldn't handle it, so the dangers were now known. Welcome to fuckin America.
There may have been more truths im not sure, wow long read, take a toke
I am.
Well thats about all I have to say. Peace, love, and remember, during the vietnam war, over half of the soldiers over seas were smoking pot
Official Truth 1: If you smoke it, YOU WILL KILL PEOPLE.
around the 1920s, propaganda was being spread that the killer mexican weed gave mexicans superpowers, and in El Paso a mexican allegedly went crazy while high and killed a man. One of the first propaganda films was about a man killing another man while high.
Official Truth 2: If you smoke it, YOU WILL GO INSANE
Im sure most of you have heard of the classic, "reefer madness" film and have heard the term "reefer madness propaganda". Well, this is what they're referring to. In this classic propaganda filled film, upper class white men (the best kinda people in the 30s!) and a teenager slowly go insane while being "addicted" to marijuana. People get killed in the movie, and one man actually goes into an insane asylum. It's fuckin rediculous.
Official Truth 3: If you smoke it, you will become a HEROIN ADDICT!!
Im sure you all know this one. Today known as the gateway drug theory, remember, most H users started on marijuana. Also, most H users brushed thier teeth at some point in their lives, lets go ahead and outlaw that too. Oh, and im sure they've drank water, so say goodbye to that shit because itll get you addicted to heroin!
Official Truth 4 : If you smoke it, you will lose all motivation, become lazy, a loser, and a withdrawl from society
Of course, what perfect propaganda for the 60s hippie era! Thanks to so many acidhead, non bathing hippies (not saying all of them were, just some) it was pretty easy to convince the middle class white man that marijuana is just a doper drug with those dirty hippies as a perfect example, when in fact a lot of hippies did actually bathe, and were very spiritual and good people. This "truth" is still widely believed in today, because the lazy teenagers smoking it will always be around, but they're not the majority.
Official Truth 5: If you smoke it, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. WE DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE, BUT THEY'RE BAD. YEP, TERRIBLE.
Now it was time for Nixon to just blame marijuana for everything. "Well, the argument is that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, and alcohol causes many cases of mental illness a year, so imagine what marijuana does" Come on. Just hopeless. But, no matter how hopeless it was, people bought it. I'm reminded of a study that may have been commissioned by a scientist under Nixon i'm not sure, they study showed many heavy dangers of marijuana, only to later be discreteted because it was found out that the scientist was literally suffocating the monkeys with marijuana smoke, sending so much smoke to their lungs they couldn't handle it, so the dangers were now known. Welcome to fuckin America.
There may have been more truths im not sure, wow long read, take a toke
I am.Well thats about all I have to say. Peace, love, and remember, during the vietnam war, over half of the soldiers over seas were smoking pot
