Cannabis In Action

Coalition Against Cancer

Cannabis in Action Coalition Against Cancer! Is a not-for-profit organization. Cannabis prohibition is a problem.There are many world histories about this plant, that furnishes numerous products, not just drugs. From ports in the southeastern U.S. from about 1910 ma*****na spread among underclasses, which were predominately African - American as a result of slavery and segregation. Migrant laborers _ were important in developing informal markets, which became black markets as Cannabis prohibition unfolded. Authorities adopted the Hindi term g***a in laws to control the plant, and the legal vocabulary established the primary common name for ma*****na. Harry Anslinger, head of the U.S. anti - narcotics efforts from 1930 - 1962 - adapted older narratives of ma*****na madness, sloth, and immorality to new context, presenting it as a gateway to crime, harder drugs and degeneration. The gateway hypothesis has been fundamental to the U.S. drug control policies, yet it erroneously ignores social and geographic context. In 1970 H**p Cannabis came under the control of the U.S. anti - narcotics agency, which gained authority to issue h**p - farming permits (but did not do so). In 1973 U.S. president Nixon responded with an all out war "The war on Drugs" which has been called the new Jim Crow, recalling historic segregation. By 1976 anti - narcotics agencies were labeling h**p / Cannabis as indistinguishable from ma*****na. H**p became criminal - an inconsequential side effect of drug prohibition. U.S. President Reagan intensified the War on Drugs in the 1980s; with it's program called 'Just Say No!' and rallied around the color green. In central Africa, ma*****na has been mostly mundane, but sometimes serves to provide spiritual clarity and transformation. Such use survived among descendents of liberated slaves in Jamaica into the 1900s. G***a is famously a Rastafarian sacrament enabling spiritual insight.G***a uses have been transported globally through Jamaican reggae music, most influentially in the work of Bob Marley. Prohibition laws remain nin place even against critically ill patients for whom ma*****na represented medicine. For the past two centuries, people have too often avoided undertaking original research, because symbolic cultures of Cannabis have seemed either unassailable, or not worth assailing. H**p knowledge can not be separated from ma*****na knowledge. For over 12000 years, the Cannabis plant has provided human kind with food, fiber, inebriation and medicine. In 1942 The American Medical Association (AMA) fought to keep it as part of the U.S. pharmacopeia. AMA lost that battle and cannabis was banned. Now more than 70 years later, The American Herbal Pharmacopeia has begun publishing a two - part monograph on Cannabis, returning the plant and it's derivatives to their proper places as useful medicines. The prohibition of Cannabis has unfortunately ensured that a spectacular amount of nonsense about Cannabis and it's medical use's is taken as fact. opponents of medical Cannabis remain opponents only until an illness strikes. Far to many people have gone to prison for using Cannabis. Cannabis won't cure every cancer, and is not right for everyone..... P.S. Laws that prohibit Cannabis are fundamentally wrong and must be reformed.