If Marijuana Was To Become Legal

[Benton]

(09-12-2017, 04:26 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I've honestly never understood how tabacoo and alcohol are legal, yet marijuana isn't. I mean, I know the reasons, it just doesn't really make sense to me how the former are legal (with some restrictions - i.e. age) and yet the latter isn't.

http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place

No idea if it's correct, but I came across this looking for something else and thought it was interesting. To sum it up, the guy claims that marijuana was made illegal as a way to discourage Mexicans from coming here a century ago.