A suggestion for strategy. Use catchy thumbnails that will draw ppl in who have never heard of Mises or the narrator. Instead of podcasts make them as KZitem episodes with pictures and video. This will garner way more views and attention. You could grab the non libertarian with this type of content.
@WallStForMainSt
7 жыл бұрын
I have heard that the beer, liquor, big tobacco and big pharmaceutical companies blocked Marijuana legalization over the decades too with lobbying as they were worried about it stealing market share.
@blueunicornhere
3 жыл бұрын
Hassan(handsome) ibin(son of) Sabah(seven). The story is from Marco Polo whose existence is suspect... But at the time he was alleged to have written it. Hassan had been dead for several hundred years. The "old man of the mountain" was most likely the title of whomever was leader at alamut. The assassyun were the model for the hospitallers and later the knights Templar. It is not a fact that they used hash. Their enemies called them hashhashin which means "hash eaters" but it's pejorative and really just meant scoundrels or the like.
@mu2freighter
7 жыл бұрын
Great presentation, Chris, thank you! If I may add some data I encountered when composing my article 'REAL Warriors Oppose the State’s War on Cannabis' for The American Daily Herald several years ago (link to the republished article in my blog below; the Herald's been defunct for the past couple of years). The information I came across is fascinating, and dovetails with much of the information you discuss in this video. You'll recognize some of the names, some may be new Regarding the criminalization of cannabis that really took off in 1937: "Cui bono? William Randolph Hearst, for one. As a media mogul of the time, he jumped enthusiastically on the anti-cannabis bandwagon. As a publishing magnate, he was in an ideal position to use the proven technique of yellow journalism to whip up a frenzy of sensationalist anti cannabis sentiment in the public mind, and these were spectacularly successful in selling huge numbers of Hearst publications. Lurid tales of violence, sexual deviance and assorted petty crime soon became a regular sight in his publications, and as expected they were often attributed to the already marginalized minorities. Hearst was a man of the times in his racist attitudes common to many Americans of that era, harboring a vitriolic hatred of Hispanics, Mexicans especially, blacks, and other minorities. In addition, he was * especially hostile to Mexicans after losing about 800,000 acres of prime timberland, a major source of raw material for the newsprint needed by his publishing empire, to Mexican rebel Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution.' * While hemp did indeed threaten DuPont's nylon, primarily due to the introduction of the hemp decorticator device that allowed much faster extraction of hemp's industrial fiber from the plant than ever before, it was Hearst's vendetta against Mexicans (which was only augmenting his original xenophobia of them) that was a primary driver in his yellow journalism campaign. You make a good point that I found too in researching this subject, specifically in the tie between Anslinger and DuPont: "There was an industrial incentive to eliminate hemp, too, though perhaps not as powerful a motivation as using its illegality as a xenophobic social control: the DuPont chemical company had just patented the world’s first synthetic fiber, nylon, and had a large financial stake in promoting it over older natural fibers like hemp. By an interesting coincidence, that intrepid drug fighter Harry Anslinger just happened to be the nephew of Andrew Mellon, one of the richest men in America…who was heavily invested in DuPont. Just how significant this is as a factor in the war on cannabis is difficult to say, but when trying to determine criminal culpability in a case, investigators look for motive and opportunity. Anslinger certainly seems to have had both." During the actual Congressional hearings, the real fun begins: *“After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat.”* ~ Dr. James C. Munch, testifying before Congressional hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act (1937) "During Congressional hearings for one of the first truly decisive steps in what would become known as the War on Drugs, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, only two doctors were called upon to give testimony. One, a Dr. Woodward, testified against the Act for various reasons on behalf of the A.M.A.. That organization felt that the bill had been hastily and secretly prepared, as well as the fact that even then the benefits of cannabis were acknowledged by physicians prescribing cannabis, retail pharmacists selling cannabis, and medical cannabis cultivation and manufacturing. He was politely told to shut up and go away. While details are sketchy, the animosity seems to have been mutual, the A.M.A. strongly doubted the government’s wild claims of insanity, death and addiction made by the bill’s proponents, most notably those concocted by Harry Anslinger, newly appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and a vehement prohibitionist for his entire professional life. The other was the Dr. Munch quoted above, a pharmacologist from Temple University, who not only testified that a taste of cannabis had turned him into a bat, but expanded on this claim, asserting that once transmogrified he “flew around the room for 15 minutes before finding himself at the bottom of a 200-foot high ink well.” Not bad for a story concocted decades before Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone!" I hope my added data helps flesh out your research, just as yours has augmented mine! Link to the republished article: libertyonwheels.com/2016/08/06/real-warriors-oppose-the-states-war-on-cannabis/
@troll_kin9456
7 жыл бұрын
This is great. I hope this is going to be a regular thing the Institute puts out.
@rogernevez5187
7 жыл бұрын
Now we are anxious for the next episode ...
@mikedunn9310
6 жыл бұрын
Keep these shows coming! Also, Ron Paul 2020!!
@devincody1928
8 ай бұрын
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@josephinhiding3595
7 жыл бұрын
Dope, whatever it's form is pretty stupid unless it's for medical purposes. Fortunately, MJ has turned out to be relatively harmless. It's a waste of time much like TV or Movies. A little more concerned about strains and growing techniques that raise the THC concentration that I've heard talk about. Probably be a footnote in history something like: Gains popularity mostly because it is prohibited.
@immaculatesquid
6 жыл бұрын
Joseph Inhiding i dont know how factual it is to say that marijuana being illegal makes it a gateway drug, considering most people get addicted to heroin and cocaine after getting prescribed pills
@cpoinsette
4 жыл бұрын
I know plenty of very successful school teachers, lawyers, doctors and business professionals who smoke and eat weed almost every day. They are doing just fine!
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