It goes farther back than that. DuPont and Hurst had a hand in making cannabis look bad.
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks agoOutlawing cannabis products was essentially an exercise in deliberate systemic racism in the US. (Nixon).
Unsure about the rest of the world.
miked@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And hemp makes for a garbage printing medium anyway
embed_me@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
India here, colonial penal code outlawed it but we’re too prudish to change it after independence
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They outlawed it because hemp was a competitor or cotton I thought
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I thought it was about paper prices?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep, William Randolph Hearst fucked everything over for his textile businesses long before Nixon, but it is true that racism played a big factor, namely beginning to refer to it as marijuana instead of cannabis and linking that to those pesky Latinos
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
good old imperialism. plus they are involved profit off of the illegal drug trade.