Killer Weed = Marijuana + propaganda.<br><br>On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Dave Monroe <<a href="mailto:against.the.dave@gmail.com">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just as the federal government had used fear, prejudice, racism, and<br>
false stories of violence to 'tax' cocaine and opium products like<br>
heroin and morphine, in 1914, the newly formed Bureau of Narcotics<br>
used similar themes of uncontrollable violence and falsities to<br>
demonize marijuana. Movies and advertisements ran in theaters and<br>
newspapers around the country warning of the evils and dangers of its<br>
use: “Beware! Young and Old – People in All Walks of Life! It contains<br>
the Killer Drug “Marihuana†– a powerful narcotic in which lurks<br>
Murder! Insanity! Death!†Stories were told of people who became<br>
insane and uncontrollable criminals as a result of smoking marijuana.<br>
Marihuana was repeatedly referred to as "The Devil’s Harvest" or<br>
"Devil's Weed."<br>
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<a href="http://brucealanblock.com/why-marijuana-became-legal/" target="_blank">http://brucealanblock.com/why-marijuana-became-legal/</a><br>
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Dave Monroe <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'against.the.dave@gmail.com')">against.the.dave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Reefer Madness (1936)<br>
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> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azf320JDdqU" target="_blank">Reefer Madness (1937)</a><br>
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> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness</a><br>
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> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Mike Jing<br>
> <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com')">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> V580.35-581.17  Imagine the fellow’s plight—got so much money he don’t know<br>
>> what to do with it all. Don’t go screaming, “Give it to me!†either. He’s<br>
>> given it to you, though in roundabout ways you might need a good system of<br>
>> search to unsnarl. Oh, has he given it to you. By way of the Bland Institute<br>
>> and the Bland Foundation, the man has had his meathooks well into the<br>
>> American day-to-day since 1919. Who do you think sat on top of the patent<br>
>> for that 100-miles-per-gallon carburetor, eh? sure you’ve heard that<br>
>> story—maybe even snickered along with paid anthropologists who called it<br>
>> Automotive Age Myth or some shit—well, turns out the item was real, all<br>
>> right, and it was Lyle Bland who sprang for those academic hookers doing the<br>
>> snickering and the credentialed lying. Or how about the great Killer Weed<br>
>> advertising campaign of the thirties, who do you think worked hand-in-glove<br>
>> (or, as grosser individuals have put it, penis-in-mouth) with the FBI on<br>
>> that one? And remember all those guy-goes-to-the-doctor-can’t-get-a-hardon<br>
>> jokes? Planted by Bland, yup—half a dozen basic variations, after having<br>
>> done depth studies for the National Research Council that indicated an<br>
>> unacceptable 36% of the male work force weren’t paying enough attention to<br>
>> their cocks—not enough genital obsession there, and it was undermining the<br>
>> efficiency of the organs doing the real work.<br>
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>> What does "Killer Weed" refer to here? Googling points to PCP, but PCP<br>
>> seems to be introduced in the 50's. And what would be the purpose of the<br>
>> advertising campaign anyway?<br>
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