Careful with that Ax, Victor-
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Meet Victor Licata, one of HJ Anslinger‘s main case studies when he fought to demonize ganja in the USA in the 30′s. Licata confessed to smoking pot in Tampa, FL before murdering his family. But even an amateur’s glance at his mugshot makes one wonder if there might have been other things going on in ol’ Vic’s noggin. Nevertheless, marijuana was demonized for decades, some even think it’s “bad news” today. The thing is: ax murdering didn’t stop even with it’s criminalization. Sure – botanists were handed huge jail terms, billions in potential tax revenues have gone uncollected, untold cookies have been consumed and snooze buttons haphazardly pushed…but every once and a while, an ax murderer crops up. And the weirdest part of all – some of them haven’t been holdin’ “the devil’s weed”.
Now one thing I definitely don’t want to do here is give you the impression that laws are made and broken on the political whims of a few powerful persons – because there are actually much larger lobbies at work behind the scenes, deciding what your lives will and won’t consist of, at least ‘above board’. Sleep tight-
