Law & Politics

Drugs vs America… The Drug War is America’s longest-running war. We have a long national history of drug use and cultivation. John Fugelsang lets loose after seeing one reefer madness commercial too many, this one linking the war on drugs to the war on terror.

 

There are tons of witty factoids and bits of trivia delivered in this three minute video. Here’s a small sampling of some I enjoyed:

  • Origins of US drug war starts in San Francisco circa 1873 with the use of taxes to punish private behavior
  • Good rundown of the history of cannabis in colonial America
  • The census of 1850 counted 8,000 hemp plantations!
  • Cannabis hemp was used as a currency and you could pay your taxes with it
  • Summing up the state of our prison nation and associated corruption
  • Hypocrisy from recent Presidents who have used drugs like Barack Obama and George W. Bush