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Cannabis

getagrip_already

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7. That was a political reason, not a medical one

Reply to EYESORE 9001 (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 5, 2024, 02:42 PM

Nov 5

Nixon wanted to hurt the dirty hippies and dems who mostly used it and were his opposition.

So he ordered the fda to find evidence it was bad and to list it in the worst category. That added it to the harshest drug penalties on the books.

The fda went so far to determine the ld50 (the dose that would be lethal to 50% of the adult population) that they were forced to put a gas mask on a monkey and force the smoke from a pound of cannabis through the mask in 30 minutes. The poor thing suffocated. It didnt die from cannabis poisoning.

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Decades overdue EYESORE 9001 Nov 5 #4

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