How many a** holes does it take to say " BOOZE" was illegal oh wait but that's legal now ........
How many dumb asses does it take to NOT KNOW HISTORY ............ obviously the asses indoctrinated by the WAR ON DRUGS which worked so well we've never seen another drug to this day...........
The war on gun take down will work so well there won't ever be another murder.......
If more people knew history and the reasons behind the BS LAWQS today we might not have so many indoctrinated dumbasses who need the FEDS to tell them how to FUNCTION in daily life.,
Prohibition Repealed, But Not for Drugs
In the 1930s, the nation’s top anti-narcotics official took up the anti-marijuana cause.
Ironically, Harry J. Anslinger, a former assistant commissioner of the Prohibition Bureau who headed the U.S. Treasury Department’s Narcotics Bureau from 1930 to 1962, initially opposed federal legislation against marijuana because he foresaw it would be difficult for his agency to enforce.
However, Anslinger began to capitalize on fears about marijuana while pressing a public relations campaign to encourage the passage of uniform anti-narcotics legislation in all 48 states. He later lobbied in favor of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937.
In Congressional testimony, Anslinger drew from what became known as his “gore file” of brutal murders and rapes allegedly committed by people high on pot. (That the marijuana was a causal factor for the crime was taken for granted.) “How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year can only be conjectured,” Anslinger wrote in a 1937 article in
American Magazinetitle “
Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.”
It was surely no coincidence that the scare movie
Reefer Madness came a year earlier.
The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, which regulated the drug by requiring dealers to pay a transfer tax, passed in the House after less than a half-hour of debate and received only cursory attention in the press. House members seem not to have known a great deal about the drug. In response to a question from another member, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) explained that marijuana was “a narcotic of some kind,” while another Representative John D. Dingle (D-Mich.) appeared to confuse it with locoweed, a different plant.
In hearings, the only witness to speak against the bill was a representative of the American Medical Association, who congressmen accused of obstructionism and misrepresenting the AMA’s views.
The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History | Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
BY THE WAY POT IS NOT A NARCOTIC......