2 oz BU - End the War *Death of the Dollar*

The “Death of the Dollar” series continues with the issuance of its sixteenth round, titled, ‘End the War on Freedom”.

Did you know that cannabis was not illegal in the United States until 1937?  When Congress introduced the bill to outlaw it, they used a racist slang word for it called marijuana. The opponents of the bill assumed that no one would outlaw cannabis, which was a major cash crop and was even depicted on the back of 1914 $10 Federal Reserve Note.

In their effort to outlaw cannabis the bill was only debated for 90 seconds with the sole opposition being the American Medical Association.

AMA Legislative Counsel Dr. William C. Woodward testified, “There is no evidence” that marijuana is a dangerous drug. Woodward challenged the propriety of passing legislation based only on newspaper accounts and questioned why no data from the Bureau of Prisons or the Children’s Bureau supported the Federal Bureau of Narcotic’s position.

He further argued that the legislation would severely compromise a physician’s ability to utilize marijuana’s therapeutic potential.

There has never ever been a death related to cannabis overdose. More people die from peanut allergies than from cannabis. And yet it is classified as a Class 1 drug along with Crack and Meth?!

There is nothing medically dangerous about cannabis, but there is a major financial danger to a few billion-dollar industries that profit from illegal cannabis.

The biggest opponent of cannabis legalization is the pharmaceutical industry which sells the far more dangerous, more abused, and legal opioids. Recently, major athletes have come out in favor of using cannabis, rather than prescription drugs, for the treatment of their life- long injuries.

Another major opponent to the legalization of cannabis is the for-profit prison industry that, without cannabis convictions, would be out of business. 52% of all drug arrests were cannabis related. That represents 8.2 million arrests from 2001 to 2010! Why? So billions of dollars in redemptive, incarceration and maintenance costs flow to the prison industrial complex.

The military also profits from the prohibition of cannabis. Have you seen the American troops protecting opium fields in Afghanistan? Do you know the only reason why we are over there is because the Taliban banned opium production?

The liquor industry is opposed to the legalization of cannabis because it would reduce people’s consumption of alcohol. Alcohol kills far more people, with close to 88,000 alcohol related deaths, each year.

There is nothing wrong with cannabis and its full legalization is inevitable as more people see the logic behind its legalization, and “End the War on Freedom”