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February 16, 2016

GOD took Antonin Scalia from us during Obama's term so that Obama

"the Messiah", could nominate a new Supreme Court Justice at this very time in history.

Don't Republicans understand that? God works in mysterious ways, right? RIGHT?

February 11, 2016

Banned Marijuana: Because the Department of Prohibition boss needed SOMETHING to do - that is all.


In 1929, a man called Harry Anslinger was put in charge of the Department of Prohibition in Washington, D.C. But alcohol prohibition had been a disaster. Gangsters had taken over whole neighborhoods. Alcohol -- controlled by criminals -- had become even more poisonous.

So alcohol prohibition finally ended -- and Harry Anslinger was afraid. He found himself in charge of a huge government department, with nothing for it to do. Up until then, he had said that cannabis was not a problem. It doesn't harm people, he explained, and "there is no more absurd fallacy" than the idea it makes people violent.

But then -- suddenly, when his department needed a new purpose -- he announced he had changed his mind.

He explained to the public what would happen if you smoked cannabis.

First, you will fall into "a delirious rage." Then you will be gripped by "dreams... of an erotic character." Then you will "lose the power of connected thought." Finally, you will reach the inevitable end-point: "Insanity."

Marijuana turns man into a "wild beast." If marijuana bumped into Frankenstein's monster on the stairs, Anslinger warned, the monster would drop dead of fright.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-influence/real-reasons-marijuana-is-banned_b_9210248.html


- - - This is EXACTLY what my father told me 30 years ago about why pot was banned.

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