The war on drugs started with President Eisenhower, but Nixon made it 10x what it is today by creating the DEA.

In early 20th century, dentist and doctors were using morphine, cocaine, heroine, etc to reduce pain. Coca-Cola got it's name from adding coke.

During prohibition is when things basically went bad as far as drug control and laws. The mafia made huge profits on alcohol, and because of the high crime rate plus having corrupt officials, alcohol prohibition was made useless and was nullified. Then they focused on the other drugs. Marijuana, cocaine, heroine (granted those two should still be illegal) any hallucinogens were made illegal.

Hollywood started aiding and fueling to the governments cause. Made a movie called Reefer Madness where it portrayed teenagers going mad from smoking weed. Funny shit considering what we know today.

And the ads they put out were biased and one sided. Because of that, and word of mouth from generations of the gullible Americans from the depression years, fueled the word that marijuana is bad.



But really, each state has it's own laws on how to handle marijuana possession. In Massachusetts, I guess they realized they were sending people with a stupid possession charge to two years in jail while letting more serious offenders on a lenient probation charge. So if you have less than 2 ounces of weed on you in Massachusetts, it's a 100 dollar fine. Funny right?