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Marijuana's history in the United States
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Marijuana's history in the United States dates back to its colonization. In fact many prominent historical American figures such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have grown marijuana on plantations. This was mostly for the plant's fiber known as hemp. Although in Washington's case there are suspicions of weather or not he was growing for personal use as well (Andrews p.403). But even with our presidents growing pot it was still largely unknown as a drug of abuse until the early 1940's when it was becoming popular among famous jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, and Charlie Mingus, and due to the fact that most jazz musicians who were using marijuana in this time period were black, white America saw it as a low class "black man's drug." (www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_timeline.php3). This led to white America launching what is known as the "Reefer Madness" campaign. A propaganda campaign built on lies...
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