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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It didn't become criminalized until the '30s, and there's good evidence that happened because smoking marijuana was seen as popular in the black community. Can't have us taking up their bad habits...
Similar analysis can be applied to other prohibitions. The variables will be who "us" and "them" are. Religion is a motivating factor, but not the only one.
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Dennis
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I heard that it was criminalized because DuPont had invented nylon, and lobbied to have it criminalize in order to prevent completion from hemp in the manufacture of mooring lines for ships.
This came from a high school history teacher who was old enough to have remembered it.