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It was banned in 1970

You are coming across as very emotional about this, but you are showing how little you have researched.

Ironic.

1951-56:

Stricter Sentencing Laws

Enactment of federal laws (Boggs Act, 1952; Narcotics Control Act, 1956) which set mandatory sentences for drug-related offenses, including marijuana.

A first-offense marijuana possession carried a minimum sentence of 2-10 years with a fine of up to $20,000.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/…/cron.html#:~:t….

Alcohol was banned in 1920, and 13 years later, it was unbanned.

The prohibition was protested long before it was finally repealed.

Uneven enforcement and the continued circulation of illegal alcohol led to widespread lawbreaking, corruption, and a nationwide backlash. Opposition to Prohibition by elected officials and grassroots organizations in New York, including Governor Al Smith, Congressman Fiorello La Guardia, and the Manhattan-based Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), increased throughout the 1920s.

www.mcny.org/exhibition/protesting-prohibition

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HopingForBetter@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You do realize that your providing sources for someone else who didn’t doesn’t make them less emotional, nor my original post “ironic” for not knowing your sources.

I stand by my original post, which was a cursory google search of us history.

Thanks for providing sources.

However, my ultimate point that it was never a gateway drug and bans were consistently protested remains.

Is your point that I’m wrong for not knowing everything because I said “Here’s what I found, stop being emotional and show me what you found.”?

Good day.

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- Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I stand by my original post, which was a cursory google search of us history.
  
  It wasn’t, or your horrible at it.
  
  “when was weed made illegal” produces
  
  …wikipedia.org/…/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the…
  
  This
  
  Which opens with
  
  In the United States, increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis (legal term marijuana or marihuana) as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward, and outright prohibitions began in the 1920s. By the mid-1930s cannabis was regulated as a drug in every state, including 35 states that adopted the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act.[1] The first national regulation was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.[2]
  
  Which indeed makes your attempt to mock someone for poor research / knowledge very ironic indeed
  
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