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Why Obama Really Might Decriminalize Marijuana
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| December 23, 2008
| John H. Richardson
Posted on 12/23/2008 10:20:03 AM PST by kennedy
Famously, Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved the United States banking system during the first seven days of his first term.
And what did he do on the eighth day? "I think this would be a good time for beer," he said.
Congress had already repealed Prohibition, pending ratification from the states. But the people needed a lift, and legalizing beer would create a million jobs. And lo, booze was back. Two days after the bill passed, Milwaukee brewers hired six hundred people and paid their first $10 million in taxes. Soon the auto industry was tooling up the first $12 million worth of delivery trucks, and brewers were pouring tens of millions into new plants.
"Roosevelt's move to legalize beer had the effect he intended," says Adam Cohen, author of Nothing To Fear, a thrilling new history of FDR's first hundred days. "It was, one journalist observed, 'like a stick of dynamite into a log jam.'"
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FDR was elected in 1932 and took office in 1933. After six years of trying to tax and spend the economy into recovery, the Great Depression did not bottom out until 1939.
It was WWII that finally ended the Great Depression, not The New Deal, the Second New Deal or beer.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:20:04 AM PST
by
kennedy
To: kennedy
Yes but beer made it easier to swallow!
To: kennedy
Why Obama Really Might Decriminalize MarijuanaBecause he's a stoner?
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:22:36 AM PST
by
Dr. Thorne
(Buy Gold and Guns Now.)
To: kennedy
“Maaaaaaan. Dude on TV was sayin’ th’economy gonna get worse. Man, that’s a bummer. I mean — wha? Did you say sumthin’? Oh! Check it out, dude! This tune is unreal!! Anyway. I don’t see why peoples is all panicky. And stuff.”
To: kennedy
It's very unlikely that Hussein will move to decrim MJ, as such a move would lessen fedgov power (anathema to a socialist like him). Besides, SloJoe is a stauch Drug Warrior type.
If anything, look for the War on Pot to become even more intrusive than it already is.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:25:03 AM PST
by
bassmaner
(Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
To: Dr. Thorne
Why Obama Really Might Decriminalize Marijuana?
Because he's a stoner?That would be the best thing that could happen. If he does that, I'll put up a full sized Obama poster on my wall in the garage. I still wont smoke, but finally someone would make sense.
To: kennedy
He has to get some of it right.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:26:40 AM PST
by
nufsed
To: kennedy
I hope he does Decriminalize Marijuana. It would be one of the few sensible things he will do.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:27:15 AM PST
by
KoRn
To: bassmaner
That’ true.
The Obamessiah is going to be needing a steady supply and what better way for the new “Chancellor” to get it than through siezure via Federal Agency (or, more accurately, Ministry).
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:27:21 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: kennedy
This thread deserves this pic:
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:27:51 AM PST
by
LuxMaker
(The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, Thomas J 1819)
To: kennedy
...I don’t see it happening.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:28:34 AM PST
by
Tzimisce
(http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
To: kennedy
...so that we can all stomach his economic plans?
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:29:02 AM PST
by
Tzimisce
(http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
To: All
Decriminalize marijuana is never going to happen. There is too many people that make their living fighting the drug war.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:29:06 AM PST
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: kennedy
To: KoRn
I agree. Maybe then I could quit drinking. ;^)
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:31:40 AM PST
by
A_perfect_lady
(History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
To: kennedy
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:33:28 AM PST
by
Kukai
To: MovementConservative
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:34:01 AM PST
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: Military family member
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”
Ben Franklin
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:34:39 AM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
To: kennedy
Out of curiosity, were it to be decriminalized, which companies would be “ready to roll” immediately and capture the market?
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:35:16 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: LuxMaker
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posted on
12/23/2008 10:35:28 AM PST
by
kennedy
(I'm a Kennedy with no experience or qualifications too! Where do I sign up for MY Senate seat?)
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