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Congress had already repealed Prohibition, pending ratification from the states.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.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
One of the first things nylon rope replaced was hemp rope used by the US Military.
Thousands of people die every year from over usage or incorrect usage of innumerable things. Both legal and illegal.
Your post reminds me of the "if it saves just one life it is worth it" nonsense.
It is not the governments job to protect us from ourselves.
And currently illegal drugs should have been banned in the way alcohol was. Constitutional amendment. No where in the constitution is the federal government granted an enumerated power giving it the authority to tell me or anyone else what we can and can not put into our bodies.
>>No where in the constitution is the federal government granted an enumerated power giving it the authority to tell me or anyone else what we can and can not put into our bodies.
Oy, you’re such a traditionalist, what about the public health, general welfare, and the CHILDREN, DAMMIT IT, MAN, THE CHILLUN!
Get with the modern statists, dude.
Oh I know they are different departments, but the forensic departments shouldn’t be able to complain about being understaffed while people are assigned to the drug task force.
How 'bout both? Throw in some nuke plants while we're at it ... happy days are here again! /not sarc
And when they do smoke it, they instantly learn everything they were told is a lie, they think everything they heard about truly dangerous and harmful drugs must also be a lie. And they find out the truth too late.
Its not so much that, there are plenty of other drugs out to enforce. The real reason it wont happen is because a lot big corporations that don’t want a zero calorie alternative to their products.
As all smokers experience, friends, family, co-workers, strangers will comment on it being bad for us, will kill us, etc...
I always and immediately respond "I do it for the children. You don't hate children do you?"
This produces a very puzzled look. I ask again, you don't hate children do you? They always respond no. I inform them that they better start smoking then. Because cigarette taxes pay for childrens health care.
Anyone ever read “1984” and remember SOMA?
***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. ***
You are dead on RIGHT!
FDR was no savior, no more than the big 0 is.
Cut the taxes, don’t raise them. Bush did that, and so did Reagan with his trickle down policy, and it lowered unemployment, and raised incomes. Let me keep my IRA which is paying me 4.5 for the next four years. I don’t want your $600 a year, Obama.
A Thanks from the Mighty One, to the Ron Paul folks who Helped elect him???
As I don my Flame Retardent Suit.... (:
You can’t smoke tobacco in public even in Amsterdamned these days.
Your employer could still pee test and say that you can’t smoke even on your off hours. There are employers that have this policy even for tobacco.
It isn’t like homosexuality, it isn’t a protected right.
>>drug education provided to kids is largely full of lies
Ah, that reminds me, in a city with a major music festival, was hanging with some kids who said they first got curious after attending some DARE sessions......
LOL!
Yes but here in MA, I can marry a fag, just can’t smoke one. At least in public. Smoke, that is.
If the "thanks" is in the form of de-crmimializing marijuana at the federal level by overturning Wickard v Filburn, I'll take it.
What if you went to one of those street-side brothels and offered to pay a prostitute to blow cigarette smoke in your face.
Would she say, “Oh no! That’s illegal!”
A very good point.
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