Look at all of the pro-marijuana propaganda, for example, that promoted by NORML. They have been swamping our national conscience for decades with that propaganda.
I think that the evidence has been lost in time, buried under the very powerful promotional propaganda which has been very actively disseminated for decades. It is not unusual for reasons and causes to get lost in time--that is obvious from any reading of history.
My evidence is purely deductive. The conspiracy theories that have been promoted do not explain anything in a plausible manner. Yeah, I know, some people love conspiracies, the more crazy and unlikely, the better. I'm not one of them. I also know that once a narrative takes hold, it is very difficult to find information that contradicts it, especially in this case where there are few people actively contradicting the pro-marijuana narrative.
I think that we are going to find out, in a very painful way, the real reasons our forefathers did not want legal marijuana. I do not think that the pro-legal MJ conspiracists are going to have such an easy time hiding the deleterious effects of MJ use as the number of people adversely effected grows.
“My evidence is purely deductive.”
It rests upon the assumption that there are good and sufficient reasons for prohibition, but that some conspiracy has hidden them from our view.
I invoke Occam’s razor. Until you produce some real evidence, your argument is groundless.
Here’s some historical evidence:
‘The other piece of medical testimony [during hearings on the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937] came from a man named Dr. William C. Woodward. Dr. Woodward was both a lawyer and a doctor and he was Chief Counsel to the American Medical Association. Dr. Woodward came to testify at the behest of the American Medical Association saying, and I quote, “The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana is a dangerous drug.”
‘What’s amazing is not whether that’s true or not. What’s amazing is what the Congressmen then said to him. Immediately upon his saying, and I quote again, “The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana is a dangerous drug.”, one of the Congressmen said, “Doctor, if you can’t say something good about what we are trying to do, why don’t you go home?”
‘That’s an exact quote. The next Congressman said, “Doctor, if you haven’t got something better to say than that, we are sick of hearing you.”’
- The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States, by Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School (A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference )