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    In today's anti-drug climate, people don't want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that time the medical literature didn't list any of the ill effects claimed by today's drug warriors.

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    Jim DeMint may be a ridiculous asshole:

    [W]e’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they’re easy [...]



    if only he’d backhanded boehner when he had the chance

    That tanning booth junkie might have learned who’s boss:

    Republican support ranged mostly from tepid to icy.

    House Minority Leader John Boehner wouldn’t say how he thought the vote would turn out. He did emphasize anew that GOP members are worried about billions in domestic spending that “has nothing to do with creating jobs or preserving jobs.”

    “We’re for more than just cutting [...]