“Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use.”
In a brief but detailed history lesson that shakes its fist at the Establishment, the blogger of DrugWarRant.com tackles the absurd sequence of events that led to marijuana’s criminalization in the land of the free. Pete Guither sheds light on the Frankenstein monster of lies, ignorance, greed and sensationalism that threw cannabis under the big ol’ American bus of clean living.
Trace its path from the humble hemp that Jamestown colonists were required to grow in 1619 to what our nation’s first Drug Czar claimed to be the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
Munchie for thought? “Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it’s been in use.”
