The re-legalization of recreational marijuana is something that’s been evolving very quickly over the past decade, and as of February 0f 2022, eighteen states have passed regulations that have decriminalized the drug., with more on the way.
But why was pot banned in the first place? And why does the DEA still have it classified as a dangerous Schedule I drug? This is the disturbing reason marijuana was made illegal.
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Mary jane n the other name u use was derogatory to Mexicans like Nigger is to black people the name mari who doesn't exist its Ganga
People say it’s not I know better
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I was wondering if the narrator would actually touch upon the dominate force behind the "criminalization" of marijuana, only to discover that no, he did not. Sure, all the facts he gave did exist, but they are not the only contributing factors to making marijuana, and industrial hemp for that matter, illegal. You had the Anslinger element. You had the paper industry. But mostly there was DuPont, with its new synthetic fiber that by no means could ever compete with hemp fiber. Andrew Mellon, the Treasury Secretary, was the banker to DuPont, and appointed a family member to be the first "Drugs Tsar". Together they orchestrated a smear campaign against cannabis to give hemp a bad name . . . hemp, the type of cannabis plant that contains little to no THC, so one could not get high from this plant, and it was mainly used/grown for industrial purposes, one of which is to produce fiber for rope and clothes.
Cannabis was never really made illegal, but what did happen was in 1937, Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act (Anslinger drafted the Act). This would place a tax upon marijuana, and upon paying the appropriate amount of tax, one would receive the tax stamps as proof of payment for the tax, keeping everything, and everyone on the up and up, all legit. However, the government simply would not sell any of the marijuana tax stamps. Therefore, "Oh no, we didn't make cannabis illegal. There is no law that criminalizes cannabis." However, it is not legal to possess or sell if you don't have the tax stamps to prove that the tax on the cannabis was paid, but if the government refuses to sell any of those magic tickets that make your stash legal, isn't that essentially making something illegal without having a law specifically making said thing illegal? Finally, thirty-two years later, in 1969, part of the Act (Part??? I also thought it was the whole enchilada or nothing at all??) was ruled to be unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment, since a person seeking the tax stamp would have to incriminate themselves.
TL;DR The narrator only touches upon the social factors that contributed to making cannabis illegal, and not one mention of the various industrial factors that really contributed the most to the criminalization of cannabis.
They outlaw things that are medicinal and push things that are poison.
Your prescription "medicine" is poisoning you.
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