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Margaret Parducci makes a point

I got a call from Margaret Parducci the other day about a letter to the editor from Maria Andrews in Willits who was defending all the pot growing in Mendocino with, among other arguments, the notion that grape growers in this county during Prohibition were essentially drug dealers. She specifically mentions John Parducci, one of the fathers of the Mendocino County wine industry, who, in a recent article we did on his 90th burthday, said he took grapes back East during Prohibition, grapes which were likely used for home wine making. John's wife, Margaret, called to say that the shipping of grapes back east during Prohibition was just that, and only that. Growers could only sell their grapes as fruit during those years. Margaret said she resented the assertion that John was a drug dealer when her "husband was only in high school - we weren't even in the wine business. It just made me mad."

Posted by K.C. on March 21, 2008 11:24 AM |

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Wine makers are STILL drug dealers -- the only difference is that NOW, they're subsidized by every level of government, including the local volunteers who clean up the car crashes.

Meanwhile, the government's claiming that pore ole pot is addictive, which it isn't. Alcohol, on the other hand, definitely IS. Go figure.

Posted by: @T | March 23, 2008 12:52 PM

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