Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were on Board

Re:Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were ... by int_19h on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:44AM (#15211640)

The few countries that banned it early on, usually did so because of its vague association with opium, which was seen (rightly so!) as a serious problem.

For those that banned it later, it's usually because they signed one of the global drug control treaties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Opium_Convention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_...

Both have been heavily pushed by US (indeed, it effectively organized the first one), and in both cases US was the one that targeted cannabis specifically. In the Single Convention, US was the one that demanded it to be placed on the most restrictive Schedule available.

Here's a good read about all this: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-rise-and-decline-of-c...

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Re:Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were ... by vorg on Sunday September 10, 2017 @04:12PM (#15214092)

Didn't the US start targeting cannabis in the 1930's so the Alcohol Prohibition workers could keep their jobs by doing something else?

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Re:Legal Marijuana Is Almost Here, If Only Pot Farmers Were ... by int_19h on Sunday September 10, 2017 @07:43PM (#15214908)

It actually started targeting it domestically on state level in 1920s, because of association with low-wage Mexican immigrants. Late 30s is when it went into high gear, with high-profile federal investigations and reports (including Anslinger's famous "marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes"), and bans on state level pretty much country wide.

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