For most of the 1920s, a patient could get a prescription for one pint every 10 days about as easily as California patients can now get "recommendations" for medical marijuana. All it took to acquire a liquor prescription was cash — generally about $3, the equivalent of about $40 today — placed in the hand of an agreeable doctor. It cost $3 to $4 more to have it filled by the local pharmacist. Then as now, the adaptability of the medical profession was impressive. In 1917, as the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition was working its way through the ratification process, the American Medical Association ousted alcohol from its approved pharmacopoeia, adopting a unanimous resolution asserting that its "use in therapeutics ... has no scientific value." But the Volstead Act, which spelled out the enforcement and regulation of Prohibition, nonetheless made an exception for medicinal use, and in 1922, just two years into the dry era, the AMA demonstrated how open minds can be changed — or, perhaps, how capitalism abhors a missed opportunity. The results of a national survey of its members — a "Referendum on the Use of Alcohol in the Medical Profession" — revealed an extraordinary coincidence: The booming prescription trade had been accompanied by the dawning realization among America's doctors that alcoholic beverages were in fact useful in treating 27 separate conditions, including diabetes, cancer, asthma, dyspepsia, snake bite, lactation problems and old age. In a word ...

In this old cartoon, there is a fair warning given against "ISMs" that will try to take your freedom in exchange for security. This cartoon predicted the exact world that we live in today. Scary accuracy. But this is the difference between freedom vs. socialism. Used via the FAIR USE ACT. This content is being shown for documentary and educational purposes only. xcannabis.com

Ron Paul Explains the NDAA (Nation Defense Authorization Act). This is Marshall Law in the USA. Ron Paul is furious about US citizens being able to be detained indefinitely with no right to a lawyer. Listen to Dr. Paul explain how we are losing our freedoms! The only clear choice this year is to vote RON PAUL 2012! ronpaul2012.com http FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

Obama to authorize martiallaw via the NDAA what a hypocrite What kind of a president does not believe in the constitution, which he/she has vowed to defend? Obama has lied about promises to defend freedom, to end the drug war, to stop policing the world, and to defend the constitution of the USA. The only clear choice this year is to vote RON PAUL 2012! ronpaul2012.com http FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

Cannabis Politics Updates 12.15.2011 Medical Marijuana Laws are useless! From Jerry Laberdee's wife Gloria: I think that it is time for everyone that has been affected by the State of Washington legislators to start a class action suit against the State of Washington for failure to protect us from the state AND federal criminal court system. The voters should not have been allowed to vote on medical marijuana if the legislature knew they were going to ignore the will of the people and turn people over to the federal courts. We need to file suit for entrapment, loss of love and affection, emotional distress, negligence on their part, destroying lives. Washington Judges, politicians and police officers are totally ignoring the law that was passed. Medical cards are meaningless to them. Police officers need to be charged with fraud when they use fake Medical card, in the same manner that we would be if we tried to use a fake prescription. The pharmacist doesn't get charged, if he fills a fraudulent prescription but the dispensary owners do.(Gloria) Also see my latest blog post: National Defense Authorization Act The Roger Christie Test Run xcannabis.com