Well...to be honest...the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is what made it illegal across the entire US, and the majority in the House and Senate at the time...were Republican.
I should also note....they tried awful hard to make Coke (which had the ingredient of cocaine up until 1903) illegal. The Coke guys realized the implications and flipped over to caffeine being the active ingredient. Course, switching over to caffeine didn’t stop the attempted ban.
The court case dragged out and Coke was given one brief reprieve....it could use caffeine, but the higher court said that the Congress could still ban it....if so deemed. So an “agreement” was reached....with less caffeine used, and one would imagine a bonus slush fund was established somewhere....for the poor Congressmen and Senators in the interest of Coke Inc.
Everyone always talks big over the Pure Food and Drug Act....but it was a dual-edged sword and did just as much harm as it did good.
The neat thing.....up until 1906....there were a high number of women throughout America who were mostly doped up by noon of each day, and somehow....we as a nation survived with all these women in a daze. After the act....doping up was pretty difficult to accomplish....so we all mostly flipped to more alcohol consumed....which triggered the next problem....the banning of booze across America. Yeah, as much as we rush to fix things....we usually trigger the next problem.
“Progressive” Republican, yes?
The Pure Food and Drug Act did not criminalize marijuana and/or hashish possession and use, for the record.
Not picking a fight but when folks generalize about housewife dope addiction I’m skeptical
Fembots like to claim housewyfes were all on Valium or librium or booze in the 50s and 60s and now they are all on celexa and paxil
Well I was there...they were not all on dope
I missed 1906 by a bit admittedly
And I guess 75-80% of Americans today have been stoned before and km not sure you can blame our cultural collapse on pot
I blame 1965 immigration act that let in million of libtards and the lefts dominance of media and academia
Actually the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 only required that it along with other drugs be labeled. State and local bans followed, but it was the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 that made possession or transfer of cannabis illegal throughout the United States under federal law.