Roy de los Rovers

 It was playing with the Saucito veteran’s team that I first met Roy, a great friend and a real football man through and through.

 I first met Roy whilst playing for the Saucito Veterans team; later on we realised that we had played against each other in a quarter final but this was our first proper meeting and turned out to be the start of a long friendship through football.

 Another team mate, Luis “CR” Trompi, had brought Roy along so that he could introduce us because we were setting up a new Sunday team and Roy was to be the manager/organizer – he had the footballs and the nets and half the players for the team, and would go to the League to arrange pitches and refs for the fixtures, whilst another friend and I would stump up the cash.

The Song & The Story: Me Pasa La Mota

The Story

 I like to use the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 (USA), which was part of the build up to the world wide criminalization of Cannabis, as a perfect example of how a conspiracy by a small group of rich and powerful interests can come to affect the direction of the world for decades going on centuries*. Thankfully, it is a smaller and smaller minority who cannot see how this simple mechanism functions (and half of those are the incurably and willfully closed minded).

To put it very simply, at a time when the world was becoming accustomed to the changes wrought by the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, the criminalization of cannabis was high in the interests of a group of monopoly men and their families.  In America, these men found themselves perfectly placed to take advantage of the westward expansion, economic growth, and huge nation building efforts of the Gilded Age.

La Historia y La Rola: Me Pasa La Mota

La Historia

 Gusto de usar el acto de Marihuana 1937 (el acto fue un inicio de la prohibición mundial de Cannabis) como  un ejemplo perfecto para enseñar cómo es posible que una conspiración de intereses ricos y poderosos puede tener un efecto que dura años*.

 Para ponerle muy sencillamente, era una época en que el mundo fue acostumbrándose a los cambios que procedieran por la revolución industrial y agricultural y la criminalización de Cannabis era alto en las intereses de los hombres de monopoliza y sus familias.

 Estés hombres se encontraron perfectamente posicionado para aprovechar de la expansión hace el oeste, el crecimiento económico, y la construcción de un nación que ocurrió durante la edad dorada en EUA.