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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 3291529" data-attributes="member: 7966"><p>Politicians pass laws to get reelected.</p><p>Are you not familiar with Nixon rejecting the advice of his appointed medical commision (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafer_Commission" target="_blank">Shafer Commission</a>) but rather listened to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger" target="_blank">Anslinger</a> who wanted to preserve/increase his power he established as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.</p><p>The hatred of the hippies by Nixon and the racism and power hungry nature of Anslinger is why the USA has such Neanderthal attitudes towards drug usage.</p><p>Ironically, both were alcoholics.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, relying on the police force to provide input on drugs is just plain stupid ... their jobs depend on the prohibition of marijuana and other scheduled drugs.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://time.com/4298038/marijuana-history-in-america/" target="_blank">A Brief History of Marijuana Law in America</a></p><p><em>Part of Richard Nixon’s war on drugs, the Controlled Substances Act placed cannabis into Schedule 1, along with heroin and LSD, more due to Nixon’s animus toward the counterculture with which he associated marijuana than scientific, medical, or legal opinion. Indeed, in 1972 the Shafer Commission, an investigative body appointed by Nixon, recommended that marijuana be decriminalized and thus removed from Schedule 1. Nixon vehemently rejected <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015647558;view=1up;seq=5" target="_blank">the Commission’s report</a>. The Schedule I designation made it difficult even for physicians or scientists to procure marijuana for research studies. Defining marijuana as medically useless and restricting research access ensured that it would not be developed for use in medicines through the normal medical, scientific and pharmaceutical protocols.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 3291529, member: 7966"] Politicians pass laws to get reelected. Are you not familiar with Nixon rejecting the advice of his appointed medical commision ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafer_Commission']Shafer Commission[/URL]) but rather listened to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger']Anslinger[/URL] who wanted to preserve/increase his power he established as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The hatred of the hippies by Nixon and the racism and power hungry nature of Anslinger is why the USA has such Neanderthal attitudes towards drug usage. Ironically, both were alcoholics. Additionally, relying on the police force to provide input on drugs is just plain stupid ... their jobs depend on the prohibition of marijuana and other scheduled drugs. [URL='http://time.com/4298038/marijuana-history-in-america/']A Brief History of Marijuana Law in America[/URL] [I]Part of Richard Nixon’s war on drugs, the Controlled Substances Act placed cannabis into Schedule 1, along with heroin and LSD, more due to Nixon’s animus toward the counterculture with which he associated marijuana than scientific, medical, or legal opinion. Indeed, in 1972 the Shafer Commission, an investigative body appointed by Nixon, recommended that marijuana be decriminalized and thus removed from Schedule 1. Nixon vehemently rejected [URL='http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015647558;view=1up;seq=5']the Commission’s report[/URL]. The Schedule I designation made it difficult even for physicians or scientists to procure marijuana for research studies. Defining marijuana as medically useless and restricting research access ensured that it would not be developed for use in medicines through the normal medical, scientific and pharmaceutical protocols.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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