Why Marijuana is Really Illegal

Back in the early 1900s it wasn't very hard for a power business to persuade government to make something they don't like illegal. Thats the reason why marijuana and hemp became illegal. In the early 1900s the technoligies of turning hemp was improving and William Randolph Hearst, owner of the biggest newspaper chain in the nation, was happy about it. W. R. Hearst teamed up with DuPont, a company that would also lose profit to hemp. Harry J. Anslinger was appointed as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics by the Secretary of Treasury, Andrew Mellon, who also happened to be the chief finical backer of DuPont. At the same time Hearst paper attacked marijuana making ridiculous claims that it made people uncontrollably violent. Marijuana was eventually criminalized just so Hearst and DuPont would maintain better profits. There was no valid point behind the criminalization of marijuana and that is one of the main reasons it should be legal.