(January 7, 2018 at 1:06 am)Minimalist Wrote:(January 6, 2018 at 11:37 am)Jane2d Wrote: Yes and no. It is much older than that.
http://jackherer.com/emperor-3/
There is a difference between state/local regulations and Nixon's "War on Drugs" which resulted in the creation of the DEA.
Gee. I wonder what the difference may have been?
quote from article:
Marijuana’s placement in Schedule I did not happen in a vacuum, historians note. Overt racism, combined with New Deal reforms and bureaucratic self-interest are often blamed for the first round of federal cannabis prohibition under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, which restricted possession to those who paid a steep tax for a limited set of medical and industrial applications. (Cannabis was removed from the official U.S. Pharmacopeia in 1942.)
The Tax Act’s mode of federal cannabis prohibition became illegal in 1969 with the case Leary v. United States, which found that purchasing a marijuana tax stamp amounted to self-incrimination. The verdict spurred Congress to repeal the Tax Act and replace it with the more comprehensive Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...marijuana/
See, it is a congressional mess to fix.
