Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
Sarcasm. I almost never give credence to conspiracy theories. I don't believe the Fed cares one whit about marijuana policy, nor do banks. I don't believe we spend trillions of dollars a year fighting the drug war. I don't believe there is a global conspiracy to enslave us via debt. Frankly, I'm just not a very credulous person and dismiss bongsmoke prognosticators unless they are particularly articulate or well-supported. I truly believe that most of the disputes about marijuana policy are the result not of cabals and conspiracies, but of honest disagreement between basically good people.
Read some quotes from ex-presidents about the banks (moneychangers). Time to wake up from your coma.

??The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. ??

-Thomas Jefferson

??Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges? which are employed altogether for their benefit. ?

-Andrew Jackson

??The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.?

-Abraham Lincoln

??The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency. Creating and issuing money is the supreme prerogative of government and is its greatest creative opportunity. Adopting these principles will save the taxpayers immense sums of interest and money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity.?

-Abraham Lincoln

(Lincoln later introduced the ??Greenback? which was to be used in place of money international bankers loaned the U.S. at incredible interest to finance the Civil War and subversively control the government. Soon after this move, Lincoln was assassinated, and the Greenback was mysteriously taken out of circulation.)
They're tons more, do some research instead of being one of the sheeple and believing everything you're told. :jointsmile: