This is the story of a piece of federal legislation called the Controlled Substances Act and how it transformed federal law regarding marijuana, why it failed and what should be done about it.
In 1951, LSD ended up in a French town’s food supply. How? Was it a biological abnormality? Or was something more sinister at play?
Today marks the 80th anniversary of marijuana prohibition. As of this date, the United States has federally prohibited the sale, cultivation and consumption of the
Convincing the country that cannabis posed such a danger to society that only prohibition could save it was never going to be easy. Remember that,
This is the story of a piece of federal legislation called the Controlled Substances Act and how it transformed federal law regarding marijuana, why it failed and what should be done about it.
In 1951, LSD ended up in a French town’s food supply. How? Was it a biological abnormality? Or was something more sinister at play?
Today marks the 80th anniversary of marijuana prohibition. As of this date, the United States has federally prohibited the sale, cultivation and consumption of the cannabis plant. And since then, the country has been in a downward spiral. A Brief History of Prohibition Contrary to popular belief, cannabis prohibition did not start with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Prohibition
Convincing the country that cannabis posed such a danger to society that only prohibition could save it was never going to be easy. Remember that, in the years before the peak reefer-madness era of the 1930s, marijuana was generally considered a benign, medically efficacious substance that was widely available in American pharmacies. However, the nation’s nascent drug warriors in the
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