70 Years Ago...
Seventy years ago
today, marijuana
(then spelt Marihuana
) was made semi-illegal. The federal
government not having the right to outlaw it (note the Constitutional
amendment required to outlaw alcohol; note too that there is no
amendment giving the Congress the ability to outlaw it even today), they
instead levied a modest tax ($1), and imposed gargantuan fines
($2,000—a large sum in 1937—and five years of prison) for
violations of any provisions of
the labyrinthine
regulations imposed.
I don’t think marijuana is a particularly good thing—but it should be a legal thing. I don’t think that Congregationalism is a particularly good thing either, but it too should be legal. Lots of folks don’t think alcohol is a good thing—it is, for the moment, legal.
