MORE SENSELESS ACTS OF BLOGGERY

ITEM [via io9]: Back in the 50s, Mickey Mouse and Goofy were heavily into psychoactive drugs, and even sold them to people in third-world countries after forcing it down their throats.

Evidence: this mini-comic from 1951 that was one of an eight-comic set on offer from General Mills for 15 cents and a Wheaties box top.




Fascinating not only for its pro-drug message (and remembering that uppers and downers were mostly legal in the US at the time) but also for its blatant racial stereotypes.

You could do that in the 50s. Not so much today.

Mostly.

The need for speed,

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ITEM: Wal-mart employee Joseph Casias is fired after testing positive for marijuana – even though he smokes it for medicinal use, and even though medicinal marijuana is legal in the state of Michigan.


In other words, medical marijuana is legal only if Wal-mart says it is.

Yes, I know, the half-assed logic here is probably along the lines of “If we make an exception for people with prescriptions, we’ll have to make exceptions for everyone and then all our staff will be dope fiends.”

Or – just as likely – Wal-mart is a national business that operates in states where medical marijuana is still illegal, and – by no coincidence – many of the same states are populated with people who still think that sparking a spliff is morally no different from injecting children with heroin. And Wal-mart is not about to adopt any policy that gets it in Dutch with the Bible Belt territories.

Also, it’s not as though Wal-mart is known for its fair employment practices anyway.

I’m just saying.

Reefer madness,

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