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RainDog

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2. The one doctor at the 1937 hearings to make "marijuana" illegal

Sun Apr 13, 2014, 08:10 PM

Apr 2014

Protested the move and he was attacked by politicians who sided with the duPonts, etc. who wanted to make cannabis illegal.

duPont, of course, also hated the New Deal, had a new product to market, so eliminating the competition, no matter the method, seemed to be the only important thing in those hearings.

...that and talking about the way cannabis made people think in terms of equality - which they presented as the scare words about white women consorting with black men.

via wiki -

The bill was passed over the last-minute objections of the American Medical Association. Dr. William Creighton Woodward, legislative counsel for the AMA objected to the bill on the grounds that the bill had been prepared in secret without giving proper time to prepare their opposition to the bill.[15] He doubted their claims about marijuana addiction, violence, and overdosage; he further asserted that because the word Marijuana was largely unknown at the time, the medical profession did not realize they were losing cannabis. "Marijuana is not the correct term... Yet the burden of this bill is placed heavily on the doctors and pharmacists of this country."

from - Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, 75c 2s. HR6906. Library of Congress transcript. July 12, 1937

which people can read about for themselves here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t1.htm

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Survey: 76% of doctors would approve of medical marijuana [View all] RainDog Apr 2014 OP

I hope this is a sign that doctors are becoming a little more skeptical of big pharma. tridim Apr 2014 #1

The one doctor at the 1937 hearings to make "marijuana" illegal RainDog Apr 2014 #2