Indeed, "Storm Crow's List" could occupy a PhD thesis effort a hundred times over.
Google "Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy" and learn what George Washington meant about sowing "'Indian Hemp' EVERYWHERE".
The works of Doctor Tod Mikuriya. Jack Herer. There is no excuse for the ignorant laws being enforced today.
Google N-gram the terms "Indian Hemp" "Cannabis" and "Marijuana"
George Washington, W.B.O'Shaughnessy, U.S. Pharmacopoeia.
Before 1960 the three terms were about equal, with "marijuana" entering the lexicon about the time of Anslinger...
Check it: tinyurl.com/ganja1750-1960
Then came the '60s!
tinyurl.com/ganja1750-1970
Nixon. CSA.
The prohibition of Earth's single most beneficial plant species is a crime against humanity.
To keep Cannabis illegal while tobacco and alcohol are dispensed freely would be *MURDEROUSLY STUPID*.
"Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy"..."Jack Herer"..."Tashkin Study"..."Storm Crow's List"
Any questions?
Schedule II includes cocaine, morphine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.
To "schedule" Cannabis more stringently than tobacco or beer would be *MURDEROUSLY STUPID*.
Any questions? Look up "Tashkin Study" or "Storm Crow's List".
So LEGALIZE it. Save lives from cancer, liver damage, AND traffic accidents. It's all good.
Re: “Prison for Pot”
Judges need to contemplate the reparations that will issue when the damned lie that is "Schedule I Cannabis" joins history's dustbin. These atrocities shall NOT stand.