Reefer Madness

I also believe people should have the right to consume any substance they want (without limits), given that they are knowledgeable about that chemical. Employers, like anyone, have been affected by the Reefer Madness Movement. The government pushed massive amounts of misinformation throughout communities and schools, and employers are not informed enough yet to dictate what drugs will harm the workplace. 

Federal Bureau of Narcotics, forerunner of the modern Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), begins a campaign that portrayed marijuana as a drug that led users to drug addiction, violence, and insanity. The government produced films such as Marihuana (1935), Reefer Madness (1936), and Assassin of Youth (1937). 

The tax was to be assessed at 1 per ounce for those who registered and were considered legitimate users for "illegitimate transfers, the tax was 100 per ounce. "At that time, comments Larry Sloman in his Reefer Madness, "cannabis was going for thirty-eight cents a pound on the licit market. ... 

Films like Reefer Madness imd other media, campaij ns were used by the jyovernment to warn of the evils of marijuana. 

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