On January 4, President Donald Trump’s Attorney General reversed the Cole Memorandum put into place during the Obama administration. It protects states that have legalized cannabis for medical and recreational use from the heavy hand of the federal government. During his confirmation hearing Jeff Session told Republican Cory Gardner of Colorado that he wouldn’t violate states’ rights in the state by going after medical patients, recreational consumers, marijuana growers and distributors. He went back on that promise. On this edition of The Geopolitical Report, we examine the ongoing war against cannabis and its long history, beginning with the regulation of the plant in the mid-1800s. From the propaganda war launched by Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s to scheduling marijuana in the same category as heroin and the ever escalating war against the plant by Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama, and now Trump, the fight to legalize cannabis continues. Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe in some form of legalized marijuana. Any move by Congress, however, will be to protect an emerging industry that will provide a significant boost in taxation, and not for the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
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Show Notes
Did Jeff Sessions Just Increase the Odds Congress Will Make Marijuana Legal?
Legal history of cannabis in the United States
New Anti-Drug Law is in Effect Today
Roosevelt Asks Narcotic War Aid
5 Elite Families Who Made Their Fortunes in the Opium Trade
Thank President Nixon, the DEA & US Prison Industry for Classifying Marijuana as a Schedule I Drug
Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies
Reagan's Drug War Legacy
Ronald Reagan Lied About Marijuana Effects (1980s)
Clinton’s Drug War
Drug War Statistics