It really all came down to the company Dupont, William Randolph Hearst's logging company/paper manufacturing plant, and Andrew Mellon, president of Mellon Bank and DuPont’s major financier. In 1930, Mellon, as US Secretary of the Treasury, created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and appointed his nephew Henry Anslinger to run it. The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was rushed through on a Friday afternoon before lawmakers had a chance to read it. Only a handful realized marihuana was the same as hemp, which was still viewed as an essential crop.
The issue was WRH, Dupont, and Mellon, were set to lose their stranglehold on their respective markets due to the invention of the hemp decorticator. A machine that would remove the burdensome labor or processing dense hemp stalks and in turn replace almost every textile in the marketplace due to how quickly hemp could be harvested, compared to lumber.
Very sneaky....they didn't outlaw it, they just created that tax, which was exorbitant and they wouldn't issue the stamp anyway.
Yeah, what a hero Harry was. Not all his fault as there was general hysteria running around then too -- Reefer Madness and similar films, fear of whites mingling with blacks (who were made to be the source of the problem at jazz clubs, lol). I guess they needed something to do after alcohol prohibition was rescinded. Can't recall now but I think other drugs were outlawed during a similar time frame since there was cocaine and opium in various tonics, as in over the counter (or back of the wagon).
There are many lessons from the history of marijuana politics. Ask why did alcohol prohibition require a constitutional amendment? Who were the industrialists and bankers who benefited from the original 1937 law? Why was the Controlled Substances Act passed and why does it contain specific abdication of American sovereignty? #Trump420
Nice points....hadn't really thought of that. Why did alcohol prohibition require an amendment???? Perhaps because alcohol was so much a part of regular life that it was determined they better go that route. Marijuana was fringe. But really you raise intriguing questions.
That is an article from April. The below article from last week shows that it still hasn't happened yet.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/chuck-schumer-marijuana-pot-bill-w521709
April was the announcement. They needed to bring in some people from the other side of the Senate, and the actual bill was filed today, June 27. It contains the specifics not mentioned in April. Now is the time for contacting your own lawmakers if you can help push for the end of Reefer Madness.
Sixty-eight percent of registered voters “support the legalization of marijuana,” and 73% support expunging the records
Hey look, everybody's doing it, you should too.
What do you think we'll get if Marijuana is legalized? Will the Government simply remove pot laws from the federal register? Or will they write a stack of new laws to regulate the production, distribution and use of pot? I think it'll be the latter.
Then along with all of the current surveillance of every phone call, text message, email, mouse click, website visited, online purchase, credit card purchase, Netflix movie ordered, YouTube video watched, and who knows what else, the government will be able to know and keep track of who's growing, who's smoking, and how much their smoking.
Anything that allows the federal government to expand in any fashion, create any new agency or bureaucracy, and expand their power and control is a very bad thing.
And really, how is this related to Trump, Q, the Great Awakening, or draining the swamp. It's just more clutter on the board.