Where does the history of marijuana date back to?

Answer 1

The legal history of cannabis in the United States mainly involves the th and st centuries. In the 1800, cannabis (also referred to as marijuana) was legal in most states, as hemp to make items such as rope, sails, and clothes, and was used for medicinal purposes; however, after the Mexican Revolution of 1910, a wave of Mexicans immigrated to the United States and introduced the American public to recreational cannabis use. The first significant instance of cannabis regulation appeared in Washington DC in 1906. Prohibitions of cannabis soon followed in the other states. By the mid-1930s, cannabis was regulated in every state by laws instituted through The Uniform State Narcotic Act.[1] The federal drug policy of the United States began with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, signed by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt[2] and the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. DuPont and William Randolph Hearst played a role in the criminalization of cannabis. In the s strict mandatory sentencing laws substantially increased federal penalties for cannabis possession (but were removed in the s In 1964, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs entered into force, for the first time placing the U.S. under treaty obligations to control cannabis production and distribution. In the s mandatory sentencing laws were reinstated for large-scale cannabis distribution, three strikes laws were enacted and applied to cannabis possession, and the death sentence was enabled for cannabis drug kingpins. In the 1970s, many places in the United States started to decriminalize cannabis. Most places that have decriminalized cannabis have one or more of civil fines, drug education, drug treatment in place of incarceration, criminal charges for possession of small amounts of cannabis, or have made various cannabis offenses the lowest priority for law enforcement. In the s many places began to legalize medical cannabis, which conflicts with Federal Laws, as cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which classified cannabis as having high potential for abuse, no medical use, and not safe to use under medical supervision. Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis have failed and the United States Supreme Court has ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Coop and Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has a right to regulate and criminalize cannabis, even for medical purposes.

Answer 2

Some people would argue that marijuana has been around since the beginning of time. The first recorded mention of it is from a Chinese medical reference dating back to the year 2737 B.C.