Now that's a joke.
You can't even remember what you post.
YOU are the only person in this thread that can’t debate a topic.
Instead of adding information to your side of the debate you attack me once more but that’s what you have done in ALL these discussions and for the record Camper, I DO NOT smoke tobacco OR cannabis nor do I drink alcohol or do any illegal drugs.
Heres a refresher course on the subject of why it was banned in the first place
Why was Marijuana banned in the first place? Why are people still sent to prison for using it?
Most of us assume it’s because some professional , discovered it was more harmful than other drugs including tobacco and alcohol but that’s not at all what happened.
When you go back in history and research the archives you’ll discover that cannabis was banned in 1930 and here’s why.
In 1929 Harry Anslinger was put in charge of the Department of Prohibition in Washington D.C., but alcohol prohibition had been a disaster . Gangsters took over and alcohol became controlled by criminals which made prohibition even worse.
https://timeline.com/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
Prohibition on alcohol ended but Anslinger was now in charge of a huge department with nothing to do. Up until this point in time he had stated that cannabis was NOT a dangerous drug and doesn’t harm people and that the very idea that it makes people violent is no more than an absurd fallacy.
Since there was nothing for him to do in his prohibition department he decided to change his mind and demonized cannabis instead by announcing to the public what would happen if they smoked it.
First ....you’d fall into a delirious rage
Second...you’ll be gripped by dreams of an erotic character
Third.... you’ll lose the power of connected thought
Finally ... you will reach insanity and it will turn you into a beast.
This is when posters started being published and posted stating that people who use it have wild orgies, go instantly crazy and white women will wish to sleep with black men. Really? It’s never happened to me?:shrug:
Anslinger became obsessed with a case in Florida where a boy hacked his family to death with an axe and decided to link this story with this use of cannabis to scare US citizens to death.
What evidence did Anslinger have ?
NONE! Zero!
He wrote to 30 leading scientists to find out if marijuana was dangerous and ask if there should be a ban. 29 of them wrote back with a report saying NO! He chose the ONE scientist that said yes and linked his findings with the axe murdering case to cause a pandemonium. Deliberately causing a country panic marijuana was banned in the US.
The United States of America then told other countries that they needed to do the same. Most agreed but some countries didn’t including Mexico who decided that their drug policies should be run by doctors not governments. Their research showed that cannabis didn’t cause these problems so refused to ban it. The US was furious and ordered them to fall into line and when Mexico still refused they cut them off from life saving medical supplies and many people died.
This is when Mexico launched its own drug war.
Scientific evidence proves cannabis to be far safer than alcohol. Alcohol KILLS 40,000 people a year in the US alone.
Cannabis has never killed anyone at anytime in the entire world.
A leading doctor, Michael Ball, worried about such drastic measures wrote to Anslinger stating that he had experimented with it and that it hadn’t done all the horrible things Anslinger had claimed. He said it only made him sleepy and suggested that more independent studies be done. Anslinger didn’t like this so cut off all funding for any research of marijuana.
For years many doctors approached Anslinger with evidence that he was wrong and would threaten that they were stepping in dangerous ground and should watch their mouths.
Today, most of the world is still living with the ban on cannabis that Harry Anslinger introduced in a nation wide panic that followed Victor Licatas killing spree.
The craziest thing is that Victor Licata never used cannabis. It was all fabricated to scare the general public and still works for some to this very day.
It turns out that Victor Licata had some serious mental disorders and needed to be institutionalized but wasn’t. His psychiatrists never once mentioned a connection to marijuana regarding him.
https://timeline.com/this-axe-murderer-helped-make-weed-illegal-5696b480b16c
So does cannabis make people mad?
David Nutt is a Chief Advisor on Drugs with the British government explained that if cannabis causes psychosis in a straight forward way, then it would show up in a straight forward way. When cannabis use goes up, psychosis would go up and when cannabis use goes down , psychosis would go down but it doesn’t.
From data taken from MANY countries this isn’t the case. In Britain alone cannabis use had shot up by 40% since 1960 but the rates in psychosis have remained steady; meaning they haven’t changed.
