Gyroscopic Investing

For those who haven't seen it, I highly recommend Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition. I just watched the whole thing in almost a single sitting (three parts). It's available on Netflix and it pops up now and then on YouTube. I think it should be required viewing for every student in High School.

Aw, I was all set to join this thread and plug Moon.

Maybe one day they will make a documentary about the era of pot criminalization.

I think that the most astonishing thing about that documentary will be the number of people who were locked up and the vast infrastructure that was created to simply deal with people inhaling smoke from burning a plant.

As I've noted before, the current era of pot criminalization (which seems to be starting to crumble) is in many ways like a Star Trek episode it is so bizarre when viewed from a distance.

Perhaps that documentary will list the total estimated number of years that all people spent incarcerated purely for pot-related offenses.  I'm sure it will be an incredible number like a million years or something like that.

i had seen bits of it on TV,  i just took the time to watch the full documentary... i second the recommendation..... lots of interesting historical and political tidbits in there...

All three episodes are on youtube (for now). The first one is here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP9vo2ebupg

Did it touch on the distribution of poison liquor as way of curtailing alcohol consumption?

That always seemed like an especially dark chapter in the history of Prohibition.

MediumTex wrote: Did it touch on the distribution of poison liquor as way of curtailing alcohol consumption?

That always seemed like an especially dark chapter in the history of Prohibition.

Yes it did.