The Issues With Cannabis Industry - 1553 Words

Issues With Cannabis Industry The publicity that cannabis has received for a long time has been negative for many years campaign ads stated that marijuana was a gate way drug that would lead its users down a wrong path of using much heavier drugs. To understand why such huge campaigns made these type of statements, one must understand the up brings that marijuana had gone through. Historians have been able to trace marijuana usage all the way back to 2737 B.C. where it was used by the Chinese to treat medical conditions such as rheumatism, gout, malaria, and in some cases even absent-mindedness. After making its way through china marijuana began to show up in India and also in the muslim community where it was used recreationally. At†¦show more content†¦This discrimination led to many people creating propaganda messages, songs and movies disliking cannabis: basis of all the messages was that cannabis would lead its users down a wrong path, such as drugs and crime. America ns even started to use the names marijuana and marihuana so that even more hatred would be created for both the minorities and for cannabis. The propaganda against cannabis started to pay off in the 1930s when the creation of Federal Bureau of Narcotics was created, which was tasked in regulating and enforcing the laws against drugs. After being created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics went straight to work by publicly showing that research finding have been able to confirm that smoking cannabis can make someone much more violent. Soon enough the United States government approved the Marijuana Tax Act, which was used to create money for government by taxing transactions of cannabis, and if not documented correctly or if taxes not were not paid which allowed the government to fine and imprison the offender. This act was the First step into making the possession of cannabis illegal. The Possession of cannabis was not illegal in America until the passing of the Boggs Act in 1952, which made it possible for the government to send a first time offender to jail for minimum of two years and a maximum of ten years with up to a fine of twenty thousand dollars. These penalties where later revised in 1956 by the Narcotic Control Act, the act allowed the