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threatened far fewer Americans, and they had relatively little influence in the districts of power. Only the prohibition of , which some sixty million Americans have violated since 1965 has come close to approximating the prohibition experience, but smokers consist mostly of young and relatively powerless Americans (American Heritage, pg 47). Alcohol prohibition was repealed and prohibition was retained, not because scientists had proved that alcohol was the less dangerous of the various psychoactive drugs, but because of the prejudices and preferences of most Americans (American Heritage, pg 47).
In 1937 the government issued the Tax Act, which levied a dollar an ounce tax on , coupled with fines of $2,000 for drug posession and jail sentences for evasion of the tax. For this reason use in the United States appears to have gone into decline in the late 30's (Grolier Wellness Encyclopedia, pg 54). Then was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who ...

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