Seeing as I drive a bill board that all but reads `pull me over I cook meth for fun an profit' I will not and have not carried ANYTHING illegal in it.
If you want to read the REAL history of how and why marijuana/cannabis is illegal I would recommend The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer. In great and exacting detail the book describes the advent of polyester rope and the actions of Du Pont to eradicate their competition. Further it is absolutely clear that marijuana (a Spanish word) was made illegal at least in part for racist reasons.
The AMA FREAKED out when they figured out that marijuana was cannabis. If you go look at the typical ingredients of over the counter medications from that era you will example after example of cannabis listed as a major ingredient. Until these unjust and rediculouse laws were enacted no one in the US called it marijuana, that's what the Latinos called it.
With ad campaigns stating that pot would make black men want to have sex with white women it is painfully obvious the racist intent of these laws.
Someone mentioned rope earlier and that somehow hemp was a threat and could be used for other products. You had that a little backwards. Almost all rope until the 1930's was hemp, especially for boats and sea going vessels. Hemp rope does not stretch, rot, or grow weak when wet. Hemp fiber was also used to make cloth and paper. Unless you examine it under a microscope there is no way to tell the difference from hemp or flax linen. In the 1940's durring WWII there was such a shortage of oil to make polyester rope that the Government started a new ad campaign encouraging farmers to "Grow Hemp For The War Effort!". An aside - when I lived in KY I knew a guy that had battled the wild hemp that had been growing on his family farm since the 1940's. When he went to the government withe original orders from the War Department for his father to grow hemp they raided his farm and busted him for growing 400 ACRES of hemp. All he wanted to do was kill it and raise cattle.
So, yes, it is absolutely clear that hemp/cannabis/marijuana is illegal for totally bogus reasons. If the ultimate cause was racism or control over the rope, fiber, and pharmaceutical industry is up for some debate. It is not up for debate whether these are destroying peoples lives for the benefit of big industry be it fiber, meds, or now private prisons.
“Seems to me if grate Men dont leeve off writing Pollyticks, breaking Heads, boxing Ears, ringing Noses and kicking Breeches, we shall by and by want a world of Hemp more for our own consumshon,” John Adams, POTUS #2
