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Listen to some of the short sound bites and find out how marijuana got such a bum rap... it's American History.

In the early 1900's drummers sold potions that cured everything. Length :47 Real Player 300K

Harry Anslinger's congressional testimony. Length :35 Real Player 240K

The Government's expert witness. Length :38 Real Player 300K

Testimony from a famous '30's murder trial using marijuana as the cause. Length :42 Real Player 300K

Anslinger's testimony before congress regarding jazz musicians. Length :16 Real Player 120K

In 1995 Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law at UCLA, gave a speech to the California Judges Association. I came across the professor's speech while surfing the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy.

Using actors from the Twain Harte Community Players we have put together an audio history that informs us that in the early 1900'S two to five percent of people in this country were addicted to drugs—turns out, patent medicines were 50% morphine. That's how we got the Pure Food and Drug Act.

With quotes gleaned from the Montana State Senate like, "Give one of them Mexican beet field workers a marijuana cigarette and he thinks he's a bullfighter in Barcelona ", who needs fiction?

Did you know that when the US Supreme Court declared polygamy illegal a large flock of Mormons left Utah for Mexico? Well, they didn't have any luck converting the heathen so they came home, bringing with them marijuana. The first State criminal law prohibiting marijuana was based on a religious taboo and nothing more.

This CD offers a perspective you could never have without knowing just how crazy the truth is.