[winston2]

Marijuana should not be illegal, which is the point of the article.

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Quoted below is a couple of sentences from "The Single Convention on Narcotics" article on Wikipedia (the whole article is worth reading):

(snip)For the first time, cannabis was added to the list of internationally controlled drugs. In fact, regulations on the cannabis plant – as well as the opium poppy, the coca bush, poppy straw and cannabis leaves – were embedded in the text of the treaty, making it impossible to deregulate them through the normal Scheduling process.(snip)

Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Anslinger's lies led all the way to influencing the U.N. to write laws that now cause 3/4 of a million U.S. citizens to be arrested for cannabis violations.

[winston2]

RE: My post *45

Last line should read:

Anslinger's lies led all the way to influencing the U.N. to write laws that now cause 3/4 of a million [per year] U.S. citizens to be arrested for cannabis violations.