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Marijuana is an addictive, gateway drug. It significantly impairs bodily and mental functions, and its use is related to increased violence. These are facts. Yet proponents of legalizing the drug studiously deny or downplay the well-documented dark side of marijuana trafficking and use.
Although marijuana had been around for centuries, widespread use of marijuana as a recreational drug did not become widespread in America until alcohol was banned during the Prohibition Era (1920 â 1933). Prior to then, cannabis, as it was called, had been used in the Americas for hundreds of years as a medicine. violation of the Tax Stamp Act was a felony with a maximum fine of $2,000 and/or 5 years in prison. Like the Harrison Act passed twenty-three years earlier, the 1937 Marijuana Act did not make possession or use of marihuana illegal, as this would violate the Tenth Amendment's limitation on federal power.