[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.

[bassmaner]

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[Conservative til I die]

So what you're saying is that our government was and still is corrupt, bullying, thoughtless, and power hungry?

[SR71A]

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.