I think the prohibition movements for any mind altering substance got their start in religious sects. Some of them also had corporate interests, like pot did, when the cotton industries and lumber interests got behind the prohibition of it.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 02:40 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am of the strong opinion that religion plays a huge role in > attempting to control and restricting behaviors to suit their > religious agenda. Things such as not being able to buy alcohol on > Sundays and making some pretty harmless drugs illegal are all efforts > with a religious core. Purchasing Alcohol or selling cars during church yes. But only certain counties ban alcohol altogether. No mention ever of drugs. I heard hemp was banned to protect the Hurst empire, how do you compete with a weed that's so much stronger than cotton? Cocaine, codeine and heroin were banned because people were turning dangerous and or self destructive. I don't know of any religions push to ban them. >> Also, most non-violent drug offenders are kept separate from gen-pop. > > I know fairly directly that this is not true (in Georgia). In NY it's true in the jails, thankfully I can't speak for the prison system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338445 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
