In whisky veritas

In vino veritas. This is one of those deep truths that most people just don't get. Men don't beat their wifes because they are drunk. Wine just reveals that they don't really like their wifes and removes inhibitions to act on that dislike.

And yet we have tried to ban alcohol on so many places and always fail. Wine does not fail. It always tells the truth and it will always be here. No matter what we want or desire. No matter what kind of laws, customs, cultures or regulations we come up with. And yet we keep banning them.

Ironically it was the Muslim traders that introduced the Scotch to their version of "water of life." It took me a while to figure out why they called it "parfume." It was the year of our lord 1494 that the first recorded existence of Scotch Whisky was entered into the annals of history. "Uisge beatha", meaning "water of life" in the native Gaelic, is what whisky was originally called.

But it's not just alcohol that the "good people" have tried to ban. Zero Tolerance is named for the coffeehouse ban of 1675, which was issued by King Charles II. The ban selling coffee, tea and chocolate in coffeehouses passed on Dec. 29, 1675. I wonder what went trough his mind. The word cigaret boat comes from the time that europians banned smoking (and cigarets.) We had to get our cigarets from north africa. Fast speed boats were the best way to smugle them to Spain.

Ironically the "cigaret boats" are now "coca boats" in Florida where U.S goverment spends millions of dollars tracking them down using supercomputers.

Thousands of people are killed every year in violence that surrounds these banned substances just like it used to in the times of Al Capone and yet people used to drink Coca Cola with real Cocane barely a century ago. Where was king Charles then?

We banned smoking because of obscure reference to pork fat at back pages of bible and because the heathen indians smoked. Therefore smoking must be bad. And yet...

Ever heard of "Holy Smoke"? The smoke that God ordered hight priests to fill His temple with every sun set. Starting with aRon's smoke filled tent, this smoke was part of 'our' worship over 1000 years. And yet...

Somehow we managed to make it a mortal sin. Go figure. Maybe you can make some sense of it.

PS.

Kanna•bus aka KANEH-BOSEM aka Kannabis was also integral ingredient of "Holy Oil" that was used to anoint kings and all the "furniture" in the temple. Almost all bible translations now (mis)translate it as "sweet kalamos" because it is currently banned on most cultures.