ElI5:Why is Cannabis still illegal in most places?
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A long time ago a new technology in the form of hemp threatened other better established businesses. They then lobbied in America to criminalise the drug marujuana and the plant in order to protect against competition from the hemp industry.
Later Richard Nixon wanted to demonise the drug further in order to lock up and disrupt hippies meetings since they weren’t going to vote for them. This propaganda succeeded and the movement, labelled “the war on drugs”, spread across the world. It failed to curb drug use and sales but suceeded in creating prejudices like it intended to do.
The older generations still hold the prejudices.
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