> Prohibition of marijuana is an attack on science and medicine.
The really interesting part of the history of marijuana prohibition is that it was specifically designed as an attack on industrial hemp, funded in large part by Dow chemical so they could sell their shitty synthetic replacements for hemp products. The word marijuana itself was brought into the English lexicon for the lobbying effort in order to leverage anti-Mexican racism in painting cannabis as a dangerous drug.
The really interesting part of the history of marijuana prohibition is that it was specifically designed as an attack on industrial hemp, funded in large part by Dow chemical so they could sell their shitty synthetic replacements for hemp products. The word marijuana itself was brought into the English lexicon for the lobbying effort in order to leverage anti-Mexican racism in painting cannabis as a dangerous drug.