04/26/2023
Returning from her month-long suspension, stripped of her national title stripped, Tara Davis of the US Olympic team faces a similar path of track star, Sha’Carri Richardson.
You may be sharing the same question Mano other have,
🎯 “Why is THC illegal in the first place?”
For historical accuracy and trusted data, we dust off the old Encyclopedia Britannica collection, or visit britannica.com or whatever. Here’s their take:
: “The short answer is racism.”
That’s not paraphrased.
Britannica also adds:
“At the turn of the 20th century, cannabis—as it was then commonly known in the United States—was a little-used drug among Americans.
With the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, however, many Mexicans began moving to the United States, and they brought with them the tradition of smoking ma*****na.
Amid a growing fear of Mexican immigrants, hysterical claims about the drug began to circulate, such as allegations that it caused a “lust for blood.”
In addition, the term cannabis was largely replaced by the Anglicized [term] ma*****na, which some speculated was done to promote the foreignness of the drug and thus stoke xenophobia.
Around this time many states began passing laws to ban pot.”
Enter Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s. He would help turn the battle against ma*****na into an all-out war that traumatizes a nation.
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