Friday, November 9, 2012

Prohibition Ends


Courtesy of Wikipedia
Marijuana in the type known as cannibis sativa, 
and in a 6th century scientific manuscript  
known as the Vienna Dioscurides, and dated 512 AD.

Democracy Now! discussion here on the historic legislation in Washington State and Colorado legalizing marijuana, and voted in by large margins.  Now the issue is the Federal government.  

For Washington State, where the measure is projected to bring even billions in revenue over the next five years, the Seattle Times has this article, and more information here in a live chat that was held with Alison Holcomb from the Initiative 502 campaign.

Waxing nostalgic, a 1933 newsreel on the end of alcohol prohibition. 

 

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