Last week’s episode touched upon the fact that the US government was ok poisoning the source of bootleg booze in the name of Prohibition. In this mini TUX shares a related scandal about how the government funded a campaign to spray a toxic herbicide called paraquat on marjuana in the 1970s and 80s.
Paraquat Pot: The True Story Of How The US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical In The 1980s | Thought Catalog
Marijuana Outrage - The Washington Post
ALSO MENTIONED: These colors don’t run, big gub’ment, devil’s lettuce, scammers, Facebook, smoke break, Hashtag History, not cute, Occam's Razor, hot hoochie coochies, data, ladybugs, Wayne Wheeler, and Cinzano vermouth.
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