[geeks] oh, my freaking head!

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:27, you wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > Ditto here.  Or, you can just forget what you were doing for a
> > while... Prob. why there is a ban on it, it would clobber alcohol
> > in the marketplace...
>
> My father told me at one point that the big push behind pot being
> illegal was the alcohol manufacturers after prohibition was repealed.

The UL over here about cannabis being made illegal was due to the 
newspapers making a fuss during the early 1960's about black men 
supplying white women with it to turn them into raving nymphomaniacs 
who would say yes to anything.

Never noticed that effect myself.