Marijuana ban

Harry J. Anslinger, ran a campaign against marijuana in the US and they made marijuana illegal in 1937 for the economical benefit of petrochemical oil well owners because Marijuana or cannabis hemp was used to manufacture oil and it was a potential competitor.

The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more.

Harry J. Anslinger, the first Commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity, a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.

"Harry Anslinger" got some additional help from William Randolf Hearst, owner of a huge chain of newspapers. Hearst had lots of reasons to help. First, he hated Mexicans. Second, he had invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn’t want to see the development of hemp paper in competition. Third, he had lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa, so he hated Mexicans. Fourth, telling lurid lies about Mexicans (and the devil marijuana weed causing violence) sold newspapers, making him rich. Hearst and Anslinger were then supported by Dupont chemical company and various pharmaceutical companies in the effort to outlaw cannabis. Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp (marijuana) removed as competition. The pharmaceutical companies could neither identify nor standardize cannabis (marijuana) dosages, and besides, with cannabis, folks could grow their own medicine and not have to purchase it from large companies.

So .. he drafted the Marihuana Tax Act in 1937 which made marijuana illegal in the USA . This criminalisation of the marijuana plant was based on false propaganda and blatant lies .

For the most part of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It’s not a recently discovered plant nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it’s been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.

The United States then proceeded to pressure other countries around the world to also ban Cannabis, using the same tactics, and an international form of "peer pressure", so this idea to urge other countries to ban cannabis was widely successful, because the best and brightest in the world had found something horribly wrong with it, so it only made sense to follow, and that's why marijuana is banned almost world wide.

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