Canopy Growth Corp (WEED)

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This is a recurring theme in the history of drug policy – the prohibition never has anything to do with a genuine concern over the population subjected to it – it is always for the benefit of the rulers, and disappears the instant it no longer meets the needs of the rulers.

Prohibitions that are removed by rulers are usually replaced with monopolies or cartels – which also meet the needs of rulers. This is true for coca, for cocaine, for cannabis – for virtually all medicine with the possible exception of the non-controversial, non-psychoactive herbal medicines.

This is discussed matter-of-factly in many of the histories of coca, but when one points out the same thing is happening with cannabis today, one is either dismissed as a conspiracy theorist, or else the myth of cannabis psychosis is trotted out as justification for the cartel.


Image #31: COCA PLANTATION, Peru, 1854, illustrated by Lieut. L. Gibbon, United States Navy. Herb Museum collection, photo by Bert Easterbrook.

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2021/08/31/the-amazing-world-of-the-coca-leaf/