We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don't have to pay taxes, they're protected from foreign competition, and they benefit from artificially inflated prices. Talk about protectionism.

Purity and fertility are paramount Shinto concepts, and cannabis is an essential symbol of both… the special prayer given for the founding Goddess of Japan is called “taima”, which literally means “cannabis,”

Ah… the good old days of prohibition… National Cannagraphic Magazine Tagged: culture history photo postcard prohibition Originally posted 2010-04-06 22:01:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Video of Harvard Economist Jeffrey Miron on the reasoning for Marijuana Legalization and Ending the American Drug War, a statistical factorial example by technical deconstruction.