What We Know Today about Marijuana Proves Prohibition Is Wrong
When tackling today’s major issues, we can learn a lot from history.
For example, when Congress was debating marijuana prohibition in 1937, Dr. William C. Woodward, president of the American Medical Association, argued strenuously against it. Dr. Walter Musto, the assistant Surgeon General, told Congress marijuana “does not produce dependence … it probably belongs in the same category as alcohol.”
Sadly, as is often the case, Congress was more susceptible to political rather than economic and scientific considerations, so marijuana prohibition was enacted.
Marijuana is safer than alcohol
But Dr. Musto was wrong. Marijuana does not belong “in the same category as alcohol.”
• Marijuana doesn’t cause cirrhosis. Alcohol does.
• Marijuana doesn’t cause cardiomyopathy, dementia or pancreatitis. Alcohol does.
• Marijuana doesn’t cause cancer of the stomach or esophagus. Alcohol does.
• Ingesting too much alcohol at one time can induce a coma and cause cessation...
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