Alejandro Martinez
Professor M.M Eskandari
Political Science 101
SBCC
Fall 2015
November, 18, 2015
M/W 9:35 am - 10:55 am
Cannabis
Intro using Jeb Bush In Britain farmers in the 1500s were required to cultivate hemp aside part of their land by law.When the James town settlers fled from the British in 1632, they brought with them to Virginia the Cannabis plant. In 1639 Virginia colonist by law were required to harvest a certain amount of cannabis plants each year. In 1176 when America was declaring its in depends its estimated 90% of clothing in the United States was made from Cannabis(J. Mosher and M. Akins). Raised to produce Hemp for the production of rope for ships (Ruschmann). The United States had laws much alike Britain’s because hemp …show more content…
The Mexican “wetbacks” who came to work in the fields of the Southwest smoked marijuana regularly. In fact, the first Americans who smoked the cannabis plant were the Black Cavalry units stationed along the Mexican Border. Smoking marijuana is said to go back as far as colonial times when slaves would smoke hemp because of its familiarity in Africa. Marijuana was usually brought from Mexico, therefore border towns like El Paso, Texas became wary of it and banned the use of marijuana in 1914 because, it gave the town a bad appearance of being a “hot bed of marihuana friends,” used by “negroes, prostitutes, pimps, and a criminal class of whites”(Bonnie Szumski and Jill Karson). Marijuana however, could still be purchased in local pharmacies in Texas until 1919. The belief of minorities being the first to smoke marijuana recreationally(Sloman) is particularly true, however they did not introduce the drug into America, for as we know that the pilgrims and our beloved President Gorge Washington were very familiar with it. As Mexico continued bringing marijuana into the United States momentum of the later immigration reform and the war on drugs …show more content…
Smoking marijuana for recreational use became a social problem in the late 1910s and early 1920s when reports of Mexican laborers smoking the plant and transporting it over the border arouse in newspapers(Sloman). Through the press, the recreational use of the plant became associated with violence crimes, addictive properties, and racial minorities. Curiously enough it seems obvious the recreational use of marijuana was and is still frowned upon by Americanized Europeans who see themselves as good protestant conservative church
Professor M.M Eskandari
Political Science 101
SBCC
Fall 2015
November, 18, 2015
M/W 9:35 am - 10:55 am
Cannabis
Intro using Jeb Bush In Britain farmers in the 1500s were required to cultivate hemp aside part of their land by law.When the James town settlers fled from the British in 1632, they brought with them to Virginia the Cannabis plant. In 1639 Virginia colonist by law were required to harvest a certain amount of cannabis plants each year. In 1176 when America was declaring its in depends its estimated 90% of clothing in the United States was made from Cannabis(J. Mosher and M. Akins). Raised to produce Hemp for the production of rope for ships (Ruschmann). The United States had laws much alike Britain’s because hemp …show more content…
The Mexican “wetbacks” who came to work in the fields of the Southwest smoked marijuana regularly. In fact, the first Americans who smoked the cannabis plant were the Black Cavalry units stationed along the Mexican Border. Smoking marijuana is said to go back as far as colonial times when slaves would smoke hemp because of its familiarity in Africa. Marijuana was usually brought from Mexico, therefore border towns like El Paso, Texas became wary of it and banned the use of marijuana in 1914 because, it gave the town a bad appearance of being a “hot bed of marihuana friends,” used by “negroes, prostitutes, pimps, and a criminal class of whites”(Bonnie Szumski and Jill Karson). Marijuana however, could still be purchased in local pharmacies in Texas until 1919. The belief of minorities being the first to smoke marijuana recreationally(Sloman) is particularly true, however they did not introduce the drug into America, for as we know that the pilgrims and our beloved President Gorge Washington were very familiar with it. As Mexico continued bringing marijuana into the United States momentum of the later immigration reform and the war on drugs …show more content…
Smoking marijuana for recreational use became a social problem in the late 1910s and early 1920s when reports of Mexican laborers smoking the plant and transporting it over the border arouse in newspapers(Sloman). Through the press, the recreational use of the plant became associated with violence crimes, addictive properties, and racial minorities. Curiously enough it seems obvious the recreational use of marijuana was and is still frowned upon by Americanized Europeans who see themselves as good protestant conservative church