[JRandomFreeper]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not for cannabis use. If it was legal, I wouldn't use it. I don't use precribed opiates if I can stand not to. I don't like my mind being fuzzy.

But I am a stickler for logic.

It's easy to see why murder was banned. It's not so easy to find out exactly why cannabis was banned 70-odd years ago.

/johnny

[rawcatslyentist]

>"It's not so easy to find out exactly why cannabis was banned 70-odd years ago"

Paper, timber, and synthetic fabrics, come to mind. Also pure racism was used to sell the lie.

[Persevero]

“It’s not so easy to find out exactly why cannabis was banned 70-odd years ago.”

I understand. It makes people stupid, irrational, and irresponsible.

These aren’t victimless crimes.

The first puff or the first week don’t make you nutty, but prolonged and/or intense use does.

This is fine if you live on your own private island; but you don’t. So we are subject to your deliberately induced stupidity, irrationality, and irresponsibility if you decide you want to smoke pot.

Some think that’s not a big deal. Having been on the receiving end of intense abuse from a paranoid regular pot smoker, I do think it’s a big deal. I therefore oppose legalizing recreational pot use.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

It's not so easy to find out exactly why cannabis was banned 70-odd years ago.

It was outlawed to keep Mexicans from corrupting the virtuous purity of white women.

/mainly not kidding

[Durus]

It's not so easy to find out exactly why cannabis was banned 70-odd years ago.

Sure it is...but it's not pretty.