[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

There were only two reasons than marijuana was prohibited in 1937, to protect the renewed alcoholic beverage industry from competition and to protect the tax revenue from alcohol sales from marijuana home growers who required much less capital to do so than the illegal brewers on whom they could concentrate law enforcement manpower.

[pawdoggie]

There were only two reasons than marijuana was prohibited in 1937, to protect the renewed alcoholic beverage industry from competition and to protect the tax revenue from alcohol sales from marijuana home growers who required much less capital to do so than the illegal brewers on whom they could concentrate law enforcement manpower.

Yes, I've heard the Marxist tinfoil hat theory of why marijuana was outlawed. I've also heard that it was outlawed to keep Mexicans from seducing white girls. I'm not sure I believe that either, but given the "temper of the times", that sounds just as plausible.