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There are several reasons, and this list is far from complete:

Hemp threatened the cotton industry.

Cannabis was more usual among Mexican immigrant workers, which is why they renamed it to something more Mexican sounding.

It was a convenient way of breaking up the hippie movement and avoiding Vietnam war protests.

It has many medicinal uses and less side effects than the artificial crap we call medicine these days.

It scrambles the programming, people start asking themselves the wrong questions when using it.

It allows the government to conduct a war against its own people, and discriminate freely; while claiming to protect.

And on it goes...

States have managed to foment different levels of social stigma.

In Sweden, where I was born; you might as well do crack cocaine in most peoples eyes.



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