What company was responsible for the illegalization of marijuana?
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html\n\nit was extremely informative!
611498
i believe that it is a crime everywhere (federal law, and upheld by the supreme court) to have anything dealing with a marijuana plant in your possession, and also paraphanalia.  interestingly enough, in most places, it isnt illegal to actually smoke it, except if you are driving.
853053
A little known and forgotten fact: Marijuana wasn't illegal until the 1930's during Prohibition when booze was made illegal.\n\nBooze kills brain cells, where grass only puts them to sleep for awhile and relaxes the person.\n\nI say if she isn't pushing this onto others, then it should be her choice.  Only advise her that if she has too much in her possession,and gets caught is is still illegal.
30511
In the 20's, there was a man named William Randolph Hearst. He was the newspaper magnate who started the Spanish-American war. His life was fictionalized(barely)in the movie "Citizen Kane". He owned a great number of paper mills, and paper can be made far more cheaply with hemp. So he demonized it in his papers, and financed movies like"Reefer Madness", showing "facts", like how you could always tell a marijuana addict from the crusted semen from their constant ...well, you get the idea..., and the constant danger that"Neg-roes" would smoke it, and rape any white women they find. The public hysteria, in a time of Prohibition, was enough to wipe out the wacky weed.\nFast forward to now, when Prohibition is kept alive by, among others, the Partnership For A Drug-Free America, which is(look it up) financially supported by(drum roll...)primarily companies dealing in.......tobacco, alcohol, and presciption drugs.\nMarijuana is illegal because BILLIONS of dollars in profits rest on it remaining so, and potheads don't have the money to throw around on lobbyists. All they have to do, to any lawmaker who even dares to openly consider decriminalization, is yell"Soft on drugs!" Same sell as Hearst, just more subtle. ..And that's the truth, Ruth.....
413119
Sounds like Controlled Substance Act (drugs)  Manufacturing/ Delivery.\n\nJust a guess, but if you've got any left that you want to get rid of before trial...
455222
Heres a link to an article on the "conspiracy"...Otherwise known as the real reason pot is illegal.\n\nhttp://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm\n\n\nPeace
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I don't know who exactly...but it;s not like pot is banned world wide. There are other countries that sell it, tax it or just don't care and those countries are probably the ones that started testing it's effects on there citizens.
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"Until 1937, consumption and sale of cannabis was legal in most American states. In some areas it could be openly purchased in bulk from grocers or in cigarette form at newsstands, though an increasing number of states had begun to outlaw it. In that year, federal law made possession or transfer of cannabis (without the purchase of a by-then-incriminating tax stamp) illegal throughout the United States. This was contrary to the advice of the American Medical Association at the time. Legal opinions of the time held that the federal government could not outlaw it entirely. The tax was $100 per pound of hemp, even for clothes or rope. The expense, extremely high for that time, was such that people stopped openly buying and making it.\n\nThe decision of the U.S. Congress was based in part on testimony derived from articles in the newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst, who was heavily interested in DuPont Inc. Some analysts theorize DuPont wanted to boost declining post-war textile sales, and wished to eliminate hemp fiber as competition. Many argue that this seems unlikely given DuPont's lack of concern with the legal status of cotton, wool, and linen; although it should be noted that hemp's textile potential had not yet been largely exploited, while textile factories already had made large investments in equipment to handle cotton, wool, and linen. Others argue that Dupont wanted to eliminate cannabis because its high natural cellulose content made it a viable alternative to the company's developing innovation: modern plastic. Still, others could argue that hemp could never truly compete with the high strength and elasticity of synthetics, such as nylon. Furthermore, hemp would have been an easy target due to its intoxicating effect, while no rational justification could have been made for outlawing cotton, wool, or linen."  (Source: www.Marijuana.com)
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dronabinol\nwhich is a synthetic form of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
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Busted! criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. And it's a class b felony.\n\nBut then you knew it was illegal.*LOL*
621511
if marijuana was legal it would make uncle SAM tons of money. one they would be able to tax it. hello that right there is some cash.  all those people sitting in jail waisting a tax dollars for having a few ozs they would be out giving uncle SAM more cash.  they could regulate it better its easier for underage kids to by weed than alcohol so if they sold it in a store you could check id.  Violence in inner city's would go down soon.  other country's like Holland have realized that legal green can be and is a good thing.  /even Alaska legalized weed for a short tI'me, and im not talking about just medical i mean it was legal to have so much on you and grow so much in your home as long as you weren't selling it.  i wish that the government would make it legal i think it would benefit our county greatly
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Marijuana was outlawed due to the American Cotton Industry. The cotton industry wanted hemp to be outlawed because hemp was cheaper to grow and made a better fabric when compared to cotton. So the launched a PR campaign saying that marijuana/hemp made people crazy and was harmful thereby making the growing of marijuana and hemp illegal.
953956
Why don't we just legalize murder and fraud and robbery and rape.  Smoking Marijuana is illegal and just because millions do it desn't make it right.  Millions of people around the world supported the 911 attacks, does that make them rifght?  Crime is crime and people who commit it should be punished.  Lock up the crinials who use, grow and/or sell marijuana.
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The government could care less. It's the corporations. And it's not the pot, it's the hemp that they have to keep illegal. It would replace too many poisonous things that they sell. Companies like Monsanto. Those are the kinds of companies that lobbied to make it illegal, many decades ago. Example. The first American battle ship was made of 85% hemp. Do a search and see how it use to be the main stay for the entire planet.
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Pot is illegal because the War on Drugs is a cash cow for the government. And it also keeps undesirables - minorities, the poor, criminals - under control. It is a lot easier to bust a black kid with pot on him and get him convicted than a white kid. It's all part of the hate machine that our government's becoming.\nHey Figato - go ask your kids for a joint, smoke it, and chill the heck out man.
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Pot became illegal after the end of Prohibition.  The government needed a job for all those Prohibition Officers.  Instead of disbanning the department, they choose to go after other personal demons.\n\nI read a very interesting article, back when the Fed's decided to criminalize marijuana, many, many doctors petitioned the government to not do it.   Even way back then, some docs knew of the medicinal qualities of pot.  Of course, after the government pulled some heavy handed tactics, the docs shut up.\n\nJust because you personally don't like it, or use it, should not mean that I don't have the right to.  I don't like perfume, should I petition Congress to outlaw it?\n\nDue to our ridiculous Prohibition on pot & other drugs, it is now easier for our young people to buy drugs, than beer.  Ask any teen you know, they will tell you the same thing.\n\nIMHO, the federal government will NEVER de-criminalize pot, they have way too many people on the payroll that they won't fire or transfer to other departments.  The "war on drugs" is futile, and big business, no way would our government voluntarily shrink it's size.
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no..it is illegal in every state under federal law. If you start a med. marijuan cooperative, Bush's DoJ will bust in and throw all the terminally ill cancer patients in jail.