To: AdA$tra
The first law against cannabis was the Tax Stamp scam, 1937. You could grow it if you paid for the stamp.
One of the first to try applied for the stamp and was told he couldn't get the stamp until he had his crop grown. He grew it, came back in the fall for his stamp, and they threw him in jail for 4 years for growing it without the stamp. Anslinger made Hoover look human by comparison.
20 posted on
07/23/2002 9:22:15 AM PDT by
steve50
To: steve50
bump
To: steve50
So what you're saying is that our government was and still is corrupt, bullying, thoughtless, and power hungry?
To: steve50
The first law against cannabis was the Tax Stamp scam, 1937. You could grow it if you paid for the stamp. One of the first to try applied for the stamp and was told he couldn't get the stamp until he had his crop grown. He grew it, came back in the fall for his stamp, and they threw him in jail for 4 years for growing it without the stamp. Anslinger made Hoover look human by comparison.
The amusing part about the tax act is that they had to give waivers to farmers to grow hemp during WWII when normal hemp supplies from the Phillipines were cut off.
127 posted on
07/23/2002 1:24:13 PM PDT by
SR71A
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