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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 From 'Raving Maniacs' to the 'Prince of Pot': A History of Weed in Canada 🌿From 'Raving Maniacs' to the 'Prince of Pot': A History of Weed in Canada
British Columbia may be known for its bud now, but Canada has had a complicated relationship with marijuana over the years. A synopsis:
1922
Emily Murphy, an iconic early feminist and Canada's first female judge, published "The Black Candle," a 400-page screed against drug use and the threat of the "black and yellow races." In the book, Murphy quotes a police chief saying that pot smokers "become raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons, using the most savage methods of cruelty without, as said before, any sense of moral responsibility."
1923
Parliament passed Liberal Prime Minister William Mackenzie King's "Act to Prohibit the Improper Use of Opium and other Drugs," which added marijuana, along with heroin and codeine, to a schedule of outlawed drugs. The law included a provision to allow the deportation of foreigners who trafficked drugs, and historian ...
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