re: DEA to reclassify marijuana

“The Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was established in 1930, and the naming of Harry J. Anslinger as its director was the beginning of the war on marijuana. With the help of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Anslinger began the campaign to make marijuana illegal at the federal level.”

Anslinger had a train full of g-men with nothing to do when prohibition ended. W. Randolph Hearst had huge tracts of forest for his newspaper business that were threatened by the use of hemp for paper and rope. They went on a nationwide tour to frighten people about the black folk and Mexicans and weed. Then Nixon, seeing a chance to stick it to anti-war protesters made it schedule 1.
That’s how we got here