Does anybody know why cannabis was banned?
I would think, every freedom loving patriot would push back.
Cannabis was banned because of a crooked government employee named Harry Anslinger. As the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics he was faced with losing his funding and position. He used lies and racism to unjustly pass laws in order to save his job.
Just google and learn for yourself.
“If you look for the roots of America’s ban on cannabis, you’ll find nearly all roads lead to a man named Harry Anslinger. He was the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which laid the groundwork for the modern-day DEA, and the first architect of the war on drugs.
Anslinger was appointed in 1930, just as the prohibition of alcohol was beginning to crumble (it was finally repealed in 1933), and remained in power for 32 years. Early on, he was on record essentially saying cannabis use was no big deal. He called the idea that it made people mad or violent an “absurd fallacy.”
But when Anslinger was put in charge of the FBN, he changed his position entirely.
“From the moment he took charge of the bureau, Harry was aware of the weakness of his new position. A war on narcotics alone — cocaine and heroin, outlawed in 1914 — wasn’t enough,” author Johann Hari wrote in his book, “Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.” “They were used only by a tiny minority, and you couldn’t keep an entire department alive on such small crumbs. He needed more.”
Long before Richard Nixon declared the "war on drugs," there was a man named Harry Anslinger who started it all
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How disgusting it is that Harry Anslinger was able to pull the wool over our eyes and set in motion this decades old tragedy that has cost US billions in wasted tax dollars and billions in lost revenue that could have been generated.
How many lives ruined?
The division of us, vs. them.
We lost 100 years of potential science and productivity.
We’re fighting a plant that has never killed anyone.
Alcohol contributes to around three million deaths worldwide per year. That is about five percent of all deaths each year. In the US, about 2,200 deaths annually from alcohol poisoning, alone.
Worldwide cannabis overdose death per year, Zero.
Recorded cannabis overdose death in the history of mankind, Zero.
There was never any cost or burden placed on society that justified Harry’s unconstitutional tragedy.
Mmmkay….
