Outstanding post, and historical perspective. going to research this info. It is certainly cultural. Right up there with William Randolph Hearst damning HEMP in the same category as negro jazz players on marijuana. All because of his paper pulpwood pals monopoly vs. the much cheaper sourced hemp paper from canada and wester US growers. He got it banned. Hemp.
LOL....Laughing as ....how many articles are now being published where addicts are ‘blaming’ Doctors for prescribing pain ‘pills’ causing their addictions! Rather than admitting they were looking for the buzz.