By the start of this century almost four generations of Americans had been using cannabis.

    Virtually everyone in this country was familiar from childhood on with the “highs” of cannabis extract—yet doctors did not consider it habit forming, anti-social, or violent at all after 60 years of use.

    This leads us to an important question: If it was not fear of health or social consequences that led to the eventual ban of cannabis use in America (and later forced on the rest of the world), what did?

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