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Federal marijuana prohibition began in the thirties when Congress passed the 1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp Act. The first Drug Czar, Mr. Harry Anslinger provided the testimony before Congress which ensured passage of the law. Mr. Anslinger later admitted that his testimony was untrue and that with marijuana being relatively harmless, it was not really a problem. The law said that to possess marijuana one must first purchase a tax stamp for it, but in order to get the stamp you had to have the marijuana in your possession. Additionally there were few stamps printed because there was no intent to use them anyway. Police started arresting people based on the law and continued to arrest them till the law was declared unconstitutional for obvious reasons in 1970.
President Nixon doubled down on the Anslinger lie. After rejecting the advice of his self appointed commission of experts, The Shafer Commission, Nixon signed into law the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. This time there would be no mistake. The 1970 law even restricts the Drug Czar from saying anything good about marijuana even if it is true, ordering the Anslinger lie to continue. Marijuana was listed as schedule I, a dangerous substance with no medical value. Arrests resumed and have continued unabated since then. There is not one piece of scientific evidence or bit of logical theory to explain he Government's reasoning behind continuing this policy, only the lie.
The only explanation one could venture would be that industrialists were interested in eliminating the competition. The Hearst Newspaper Syndicate pushed for a national prohibition of marijuana with all the untrue stories and sensationalism it could muster. Marijuana can be used for a host of products, paper, cloth, fiber, lumber, ethanol from hempseed oil, ect:, and as the use of marijuana is environmentally friendly, it is a threat to some of these industries. Ask yourself, what ever happened to the canvass industry?
The same is true of the pharmaceuticals industry. There were many medical marijuana medicines approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration before 1937 and in 1988 marijuana was declared to be the safest therapeutic substance known to man by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Administrative Law Judge. You know Big Pharma must feel threatened by that.
Some historians are beginning to believe there is a connection between the suppression of the marijuana/hemp industry and the rise of Dupont, Dow and the big pharmaceutical companies. These companies are not the only players who benefit from the total prohibition of marijuana. If prohibition is a crime, and I think it is, then who benefits from the crime?
And so, as the lie continues, in it's aftermath are the victims. Over 850.000 citizens arrested in 2009 alone, 12 million since 1980, billions of tax dollars spent on the justice system, police, enforcement and prisons, billions in lost economic activity, jobs and revenue, and for what? For what good reason do we cut this swath of destruction through our society every year? Are there any Federal or State legislators who can provide a scientific and logical explanation as to why we do this to ourselves? Legislators are always talking about eliminating programs that don't work. Why is prohibition such a sacred cow? Drug Prohibition is the greatest policy failure in the history of this great nation. How long before our legislators face up to prohibition's failure and end this sad chapter in our history?
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: state-journal.com
Contact: State-Journal.com
Copyright:Frankfort Publishing Co., LLC 1995-2010
Website:State-Journal.com - Marijuana Prohibition, Based on Government Lies
President Nixon doubled down on the Anslinger lie. After rejecting the advice of his self appointed commission of experts, The Shafer Commission, Nixon signed into law the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. This time there would be no mistake. The 1970 law even restricts the Drug Czar from saying anything good about marijuana even if it is true, ordering the Anslinger lie to continue. Marijuana was listed as schedule I, a dangerous substance with no medical value. Arrests resumed and have continued unabated since then. There is not one piece of scientific evidence or bit of logical theory to explain he Government's reasoning behind continuing this policy, only the lie.
The only explanation one could venture would be that industrialists were interested in eliminating the competition. The Hearst Newspaper Syndicate pushed for a national prohibition of marijuana with all the untrue stories and sensationalism it could muster. Marijuana can be used for a host of products, paper, cloth, fiber, lumber, ethanol from hempseed oil, ect:, and as the use of marijuana is environmentally friendly, it is a threat to some of these industries. Ask yourself, what ever happened to the canvass industry?
The same is true of the pharmaceuticals industry. There were many medical marijuana medicines approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration before 1937 and in 1988 marijuana was declared to be the safest therapeutic substance known to man by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Administrative Law Judge. You know Big Pharma must feel threatened by that.
Some historians are beginning to believe there is a connection between the suppression of the marijuana/hemp industry and the rise of Dupont, Dow and the big pharmaceutical companies. These companies are not the only players who benefit from the total prohibition of marijuana. If prohibition is a crime, and I think it is, then who benefits from the crime?
And so, as the lie continues, in it's aftermath are the victims. Over 850.000 citizens arrested in 2009 alone, 12 million since 1980, billions of tax dollars spent on the justice system, police, enforcement and prisons, billions in lost economic activity, jobs and revenue, and for what? For what good reason do we cut this swath of destruction through our society every year? Are there any Federal or State legislators who can provide a scientific and logical explanation as to why we do this to ourselves? Legislators are always talking about eliminating programs that don't work. Why is prohibition such a sacred cow? Drug Prohibition is the greatest policy failure in the history of this great nation. How long before our legislators face up to prohibition's failure and end this sad chapter in our history?
NewsHawk: MedicalNeed: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: state-journal.com
Contact: State-Journal.com
Copyright:Frankfort Publishing Co., LLC 1995-2010
Website:State-Journal.com - Marijuana Prohibition, Based on Government Lies
