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Originally Posted by cool1
Basically marijuana being made illegal had nothing to do with smoking it! It had everything to do with big business, DUPONT and MONSANTO and DOW, wanting to makes billions of dollars on clothing made of crappy plastic fibers = Polyester and Nylon as well as other products that hemp would have kept them from making as much money on!
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It had nothing to do with that and that is just tinfoil hat territory. It had just about everything to do with an issue we current have today, illegal Mexicans. Just back then at first we needed their labor so it was cool, then the depression hit and people wanted to make them take their asses back to Mexico. So they applied the same tax law that they applied to machine guns in order to make it illegal. Reality was though that the Federal Government wanted nothing to do with it and felt it was a state issue yet the border states forced it.
The Southern states forced cocaine onto the list by associating it with black men sexually violating white women, often by force. Which also was untrue. It was a drug that companies often gave to their dock workers so that they could have them work longer shifts without getting tired.