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	1937 Marijuana Tax Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act (strictly the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act) was one of the cornerstone bills that led to the criminalization of Cannabis.
		The bill was passed on the grounds that marijuana caused "murder, insanity and death".
		The Act is often referred to by advocates for decriminalization of marijuana, who claim there is now very clear evidence that the act itself was based mostly on racism and wild, entirely unsupported claims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marijuana_Tax_Act (588 words)

	The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 - Full Text of the Act
		The provisions of this Act shall apply to the several States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and the insular possessions of the United States, except the Philippine Islands.
		The investigation and the detection, and presentation to prosecuting officers of evidence, of violations of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Narcotics and the assistants, agents, inspectors, or employees under his direction.
		All general provisions of the internal revenue laws, not inconsistent with the Marihuana Tax Act, are applicable in the enforcement of the latter.
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/hemp/taxact/mjtaxact.htm (3205 words)

	Medical cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for cannabis is due largely to the efforts of drug prohibitionists in the United States during the 1920s and 30s.
		Marijuana is in Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, making it subject to special restrictions.
		The Act allows mis-controlled substances to be reclassified by petition by any member of the public, but federal agencies whose power and budgets depend on the illegal status of marijuana have denied each such petition (another, by Jon Gettman, is pending).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medical_marijuana (4893 words)

	The Marijuana Tax Act
		The Marijuana Tax Act is a bill that was passed in 1937 by the federal government concerning the selling, cultivating, and bartering of cannabis.
		As such, when smoking marijuana was associated with Mexicans who as a group were stereotyped as violent and already occupied a low social position, the moral and legal status of marijuana also diminished.
		The Marijuana Tax Act did not make hemp or marijuana illegal; it simply meant that for a person to cultivate and market hemp, one would have to purchase a “stamp” and pay taxes, both cultivator (now regulated by the government) and the purchaser.
	www.blackholenews.com /Editorial/The_Marijuana_Tax_Act.html (6060 words)

	Marijuana
		Marijuana is often called a "soft drug" because it is far less dangerous than heroin, cocaine or "speed", the substances that most people think of when they hear the word "drug".
		Marijuana was made illegal in Japan by the American military occupation government for the simple reason that it was already illegal in the USA where it had been banned in 1937.
		It was the first federal law against marijuana in 300 years of history of a country whose first and third presidents, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, had both grown marijuana on their farms.
	www.taima.org /en/drug.htm (3275 words)

	Poetry From The Starlite Cafe: The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hearings on the Tax Act were confined to committees that spent portions of five days in the House and les than two hours in the Senate.
		It was prescribed for asthma, as an anti-convulsant for tetanus and epilepsy, and as a soporific for insomnia.
		Marijuana users also do not smoke “a pack a day” and if marijuana were legalized, selective breeding could lead to high potency marijuana varieties with lower tar and resin content.
	www.thestarlitecafe.com /poems/92/poem_777460.html (2392 words)

	Why is Marijuana Illegal?
		Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
		In the Harrison Act, legal uses of opiates and cocaine were taxed (supposedly as a revenue need by the federal government, which is the only way it would hold up in the courts), and those who didn't follow the law found themselves in trouble with the treasury department.
		At this point, marijuana (or marihuana) was a sensationalist word used to refer to Mexicans smoking a drug and had not been connected in most people's minds to the existing cannabis/hemp plant.
	blogs.salon.com /0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html (3698 words)

	Marijuana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once in place, the Marijuana Tax Act was credited with the immediate dramatic reduction of violent crimes committed under the influence of marijuana and the price of a marijuana cigarette increased 6-12 times.
		Marijuana possession is a crime today and if you have under one ounce, 28 grams, it is prosecuted as a misdemeanor.
		Today marijuana is being researched for a number of medicinal purposes and the state of California was the first the legalize marijuana consumption for terminally ill patients.
	home.sandiego.edu /~csimonds/marijuana.html (619 words)

	Facts About Marijuana Seeds, Legalizing Marijuana, Growing Cannabis Leaf
		Indicative of the commanders' vilification of marijuana and those who smoke it is a statement made by outgoing Los Angeles Chief of Police, Daryl Gates, who in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee stated that he favored the death penalty even for casual users of marijuana.
		Marijuana seeds have been carried by the wind, in bird droppings and has attached itself to animals that trek over long distances, thus globally dispersing the plant, naturally.
		They certainly didn't know that hemp and marijuana came from the same Cannabis plant, and they were never told they were actually outlawing hemp — a crop they were very familiar with because most of them grew up with it on their family farm.
	www.marijuanahydro.com (1533 words)

	The Marijuana Tax Act: The History of US Drug Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Federal Bureau of Narcotics did not consider marijuana use to be a threat to the extent that heroin and cocaine were, and was its commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger, was reluctant to place marijuana under federal prohibition, hoping instead that it would be controlled at the state level.
		According to the draft, anyone attempting to sell marijuana had to pay the transfer tax – but the tax stamp would only be issued to those who were already in possession of the marijuana.
		The Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress in 1937 after a half-hour of floor debate, during which no medical data was presented.
	www.addictiondoctor.com /pages/maritaxact.htm (800 words)

	frontline: busted - america's war on marijuana: marijuana timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anti-drug campaigners warned against the encroaching "Marijuana Menace," and terrible crimes were attributed to marijuana and the Mexicans who used it.
		It was widely acknowledged that the mandatory minimum sentences of the 1950s had done nothing to eliminate the drug culture that embraced marijuana use throughout the 60s, and that the minimum sentences imposed were often unduly harsh.
		Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html (1013 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Marijuana tax act was passed in 1937 which effectively illegalized marijuana by excessively taxing it.
		With more research marijuana based medicines could become a useful tool for doctors, but because of Hearst’s propaganda many people still believe marijuana is a very bad drug in the same class as cocaine and heroin.
		Marijuana use remains high today and many people go to jail for using a drug that should not be illegal.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~kcharris/hemp.doc (846 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Overall, the campaign was so incredibly effective that by the time the Marijuana Tax Act was brought to vote, most of the public was not even aware that hemp and marijuana came from the same plant, much less that the law destroying traffic in marijuana would also destroy the hemp industry.
		Because the public recognized and appreciated the benefits of both hemp and cannabis, the term "marijuana" was consistently and deliberately used by Hearst and Anslinger to disassociate the plant they were demonizing from the one that the country had relied on since its beginnings.
		When the act came up for vote on the floor of congress, the question of whether the AMA agreed with the act was raised.
	biomassive.org /g2012/hemp/taxact.html (1743 words)

	MARIJUANA TAX STAMPS
		The federal government had originally included marijuana among the substances to be regulated by the Harrison Act of 1914, but opposition from the drug industry is generally believed responsible for its exclusion from the act.
		It seems marijuana was used by turn of the century drug companies in creams and ointments that they manufactured.
		The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 classified marihuana a controlled substance and imposed an annual occupational tax on medical practitioners requiring them to display a Special tax stamp to prescribe marijuana products.
	marijuanastamps.com /federal-stamps.htm (391 words)

	Marijuana and Hashish
		Marijuana is a preparation of leafy material from the three separate species of the Cannabis plant that is used for smoking: C.
		A 1972 report showed that marijuana smoking was effective in reducing the fluid pressure of the eye in a glaucoma patient.
		Marijuana use was spreading slowly across the US and with any luck it might have become acculturated.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~tommyb/Marijuana.html (1307 words)

	Disease Categories
		The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, intended to prohibit marijuana's social use, was most effective in prohibiting medical use of the drug.
		Marijuana has shown promise as a possible glaucoma treatment in numerous published studies.
		Nevertheless, a significant number of studies have been conducted leading Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis Young of the DEA to conclude in September 1988 that marijuana's medical benefits in the treatment of spasticity is "beyond question" and recommended rescheduling of the drug to allow prescriptive access.
	www.marijuana-as-medicine.org /Alliance/facts.html (2588 words)

	Portland NORML: American Medical Association Opposes the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
		The act is entitled "An Act to impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to impose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue therefrom by registry and recording."
		By such a procedure the professional use of cannabis may readily be controlled as effectively as are the professional uses of opium and coca leaves, with less interference with professional practice and less cost and labor on the part of the Treasury Department.
		It has been suggested that the inclusion of cannabis into the Harrison Narcotics Act would jeopardize the constitutionality of that act, but that suggestion has been supported by no specific statements of its legal basis or citations of legal authorities.
	www.marijuanalibrary.org /AMA_opposes_1937.html (437 words)

	Full Text of the Marihuana Tax Act as passed in 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Act, be applicable in respect of the taxes imposed by this Act.
		of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture and, except as inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,
		Tax Act of 1937 is involved, jointly, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.
	www.artistictreasure.com /marihuanataxactpassed1937.html (5592 words)

	1937 Marijuana Tax Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the USA the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was one of the cornerstone bills that led to the criminalisation of Cannabis.
		It was introduced to Congress by the Commissioner of the Federal Narcotics Bureau Harry Anslinger.
		This statement was not correct since the AMA had only become aware that the "marijuana" referred to in the bill was actually the cannabis that had been prescribed for the last 100 years two days before their evidence.
	www.factbase.info /19/1937-marijuana-tax-act.html (87 words)

	Hemp and Marijuana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1937, the passage of the Marijuana tax Act hopelessly confused the terms “hemp” and “marijuana”.
		The movement to legalize “marijuana” in the 1960s and 1970s did not use the term “hemp” to describe “marijuana”.
		Because The Emperor was targeted at a “marijuana” movement and since it was not widely known that low-THC varieties of hemp existed in Europe and Asia, it was believed that “marijuana” must be legalized to allow industrial uses of “hemp”.
	www.tc-sales.biz /article/Article/Hemp-and-Marijuana/7974 (987 words)

	Associated Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Harrelson planted four hemp seeds in 1996, knowing he would be arrested so he could challenge the law outlawing possession of any part of the cannabis plant.
		Harrelson's trial for possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor that carries a potential fine and little possibility for jail time, has been put off pending his appeals.
		In the 1800s it was used to make rope and sails, but anti-drug laws, the availability of other fibers and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 wiped out production in the United States.
	www.marijuana.org /AP3-23-00.htm (354 words)

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		By 1935, there were 36 states with laws regulating the use, sale, and/or possession of marijuana.
		This led to the introduction of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, similar to the Harrison Act of 1914, which did not outlaw cannabis; it just taxed the grower, distributor, seller, and buyer and made it nearly impossible to have anything to do with the substance.
		Soon after this Act was put into law, a study by the New York Academy of Medicine in 1944 stated that marijuana impairs intellectual and physical functioning of an individual, but does not affect the basic personality of the person.
	home.sandiego.edu /~csimonds/marijuana.htm (389 words)

	The Marihuana Tax Act 1937
		But it was not until 1937 that the all-encompassing Marihuana Tax Act effectively thwarted cannabis use, whether medicinal, practical or recreational, for future generations.
		Reporting concealed the medicinal and practical applications of the plant, which were then well known to the American public, by simply not telling people that marijuana was exactly the same as stuff as hemp.
		The bill proposed a nominal tax of one dollar on all shipments of so-called marihuana, and at its heart was a maze of legislation designed to make it impossible for anyone who wished to deal with cannabis, in any form, to do so.
	www.ephidrina.org /cannabis/taxact.html (1007 words)

	Marihemp: Medical: For those w/ Time: H. Anslinger, Marijuana & WoD
		Clearly, the policy to create a Marijuana Prohibition based on the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, and extend its provisions to restrict all cultivation of Cannabis Hemp, was outside the Constitutional authority of the Federal Government.
		Nevertheless, as Wallack (1980) observes: The efforts of the FBN in the 1930’s, in what could probably roughly be characterized as the first federally sponsored drug education campaign, established a trend that was to be followed through the 1960’s—the use of sensationalism and scare tactics and the avoidance, repression, or minimization of scientific information.
		From October 1st 1937, the Marijuana Tax Act made it illegal to grow or transfer any form of cannabis without a tax-paid stamp - which were never made available to private citizens.
	www.cannabinoid.com /boards/msg3x3122.shtml (4469 words)

	The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
		The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge, by Professors Richard Bonnie and Charles Whitebread - This is a more extended history of the origins of the marijuana laws.
		Unraveling an American Dilemma: The Demonization of Marihuana - by John C. Lupien -- This is the best exploration I have seen of the background of the supposed Anslinger-Hearst-DuPont conspiracy to outlaw marijuana in order to remove hemp as a possible competitor to their products.
		Marihuana Tax Act - The full text of the Marihuana Tax Act, as passed in 1937
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm (970 words)

	Tax Act of 1937 - Kentucky Hemp Outfitters
		Tax Act of 1937 - Kentucky Hemp Outfitters
		(Note: This was the exorbitant U.S. tax placed on hemp in 1937.
		(1) Upon each transfer to any person who has paid the special tax and registered under section 2 of this Act, $1 per ounce of marihuana or fraction thereof.
	www.kentuckyhemp.com /library/taxact.html (2950 words)

	THE MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937
		The popular and therapeutic uses of hemp preparations are not categorically prohibited by the provisions of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.
		Regulations No. 1 was more than an invasion of the traditional right of privacy between patient and physician; it was a hopelessly involved set of rules that were obviously designed not merely to discourage but to prohibit the medical and popular use of marijuana.
		(Act of Aug. 2, 1937, Public 238, 75th Congress)
	user.aol.com /saggysue/1937aact.htm (1685 words)

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	American Medical Association Opposes the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		The act is entitled "An Act to impose an occupational excise tax upon certain dealers in marihuana, to impose a transfer tax upon certain dealings in marihuana, and to safeguard the revenue there from by registry and recording."
	www.onlinepot.org /reefermadness/amaopposes.htm (646 words)

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