Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Costco, Nicotine, Drug Liberalization
25 Apr 2018
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They made an act and put racial motivated laws in (the marijuana tax act 1937) The reefer madness if you s(cid:373)oke you"ll go o(cid:374) a ra(cid:373)page: all forms of cannabis became illegal, until the war and then was bad again after the war. Pass law banning production of marijuana and hemp despite how effective it is as a textile. Because the pulp and paper industries had lots of money, power and sway with politicians. Then war comes along, and they decide it is cheap, grows quick and has so many uses for the war. War is over= no more hemp: communists used marijuana to keep america docile. Originally banned because made people violent and crazy. 2: oxycontin was promoted as a safer, less addictive version of morphine. The fear of people was that everyone was going to start using. Became million business in first year.
