[ChrisInAR]

It was 1937 when the Marihuana Tax Act was passed. IIRC, it didn't criminalize it exactly...it just taxed it so highly that it made it nearly impossible to buy. One of the top promoters of criminalizing was Harry Anslinger, a racist to the core who equated marujiana use w/ blacks, demonic jazz / swing music, rape, & sex. Have you ever watched the 1930's film "Reefer Madness"?

[Mojave]

It was 1937 when the Marihuana Tax Act was passed.

Not in affect for about forty years. Read a book.

[truthfreedom]

Sure have seen it - on tv years ago.

New Deal era legislation certainly isn’t something we should be looking at as eternal truth. We aren’t talking gay marriage here.

I’ve also heard that hemp is a good plant, makes good paper, grows real fast, can make cellulosic ethanol from it, biodiesel, etc.

I just don’t think they should be making growing plants illegal.

Heroin was an OTC medication for a short time. Cocaine was in coca-cola.

If you can grow pot and opium poppies and not pay anyone, the pharma industry won’t be happy. Opium tea = bad, oxycontin = good.