In the US, the reason that tobacco and ethanol have been legal for a very long time, but cannabis is still federally illegal, is...

1. 2021-11-09 at 7:25 PM UTC

   #21
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole

   Originally posted by WellHung Tobacco lobbyists line the pockets of politicians to make an extremely damaging, addictive, dangerous, and toxic product legal. It's widespread availability is extremely harmful to the public.

   
   Start your own tobacco company and change the industry yourself, be the change you want to see!
   
   Oh wait... you can't just "start a tobacco company" there are too many regulations and the current companies have a monopoly. The amount of capital required to even get a foot in the door of that industry is beyond any profit you will ever make competing in such a system
   
   
   
   I was in the tobacco/nicotine industry once before all the regulations associated with ejuice manufacture. Back then you could make money importing hardware from China too but that is LONG dead
   
   You need $20k just for the license to import a lot of this stuff now. They are killing small business owners in favor of large corporate lobbyist protected tobacco laws even though ecigs are a less harmful product.
2. 2021-11-09 at 7:27 PM UTC

   #22
   

   Quick Mix Ready Dark Matter [jealously defalcate my upanishad]
   Citizen Kane
   
   William Randolph Hearst
   
   
   Wanted to kill the hemp industry because it was competing with his lumber business. he lobbied to make pot illegal by using Mexican migrant workers as a trope figure and demonize their use of smoking weed to relax after a hard day of work
   
   or something like this.
3. 2021-11-09 at 7:32 PM UTC

   #23
   

   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
   
   
   Wasn't hemp illegal for the longest time too?
4. 2021-11-09 at 7:35 PM UTC

   #24
   

   Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

   Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready Citizen Kane
   
   William Randolph Hearst
   
   
   Wanted to kill the hemp industry because it was competing with his lumber business. he lobbied to make pot illegal by using Mexican migrant workers as a trope figure and demonize their use of smoking weed to relax after a hard day of work
   
   or something like this.

   
   Thanks for the history lesson. But you left out Dupont and few others. The question isn't why it was done in the 1930's. It is why are they currently doing it.
5. 2021-11-09 at 7:38 PM UTC

   #25
   

   Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

   Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready Citizen Kane
   
   William Randolph Hearst
   
   
   Wanted to kill the hemp industry because it was competing with his lumber business. he lobbied to make pot illegal by using Mexican migrant workers as a trope figure and demonize their use of smoking weed to relax after a hard day of work
   
   or something like this.

   
   Here let me help you out.