on May 7, 2014
Pot activists took part in the "Global Marijuana March: on May 3 demanded the decriminalization of Marijuana.
They might also have asked why was it illegal in the first place?
Well that happen in 1923, and if there was any parliamentary debate, historians have been unable to find a record of it.
In 1923, then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government introduced an Act of Prohibit the improper us of Opium and other Drugs. The federal health minister at that time, Henri Beland, said the bill was a consolidation of other legislation that have been passed over the previous years, with some changes.
At that time the only drugs on the schedule were opium, morphine, cocaine and eucaine (a local anesthetic first introduces as a substitute to cocaine).
The new bill added three drugs to the prescribed list: heroin, codeine and "Cannabis Indic" (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh.
Carstairs is the author of "Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug use, Regulations and Power in Canada 1920-1961" and chair of the University of Guelph's history department.
The month May 3, when it was the Senate's turn to review the legislation, Raoul Dandurand, the liberal government's leader in the Senate, told his colleagues, "There is only one addition to the schedule: Cannabis Indica (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh".
In what may be the most detailed account of these 1923 events, the authors of the 1991 book "Panic and Indifference: The Politics Of Canada's Drug Laws", state that the health department's narcotic division's files contain a draft bill that DOES NOT include cannabis. There are several carbon copies, and to one of them was added. "Cannabis Indica (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh."
No one seems to know who added the phrase or who ordered it added. But both the House and the Senate agreed to the additions without and further discussion.
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They might also have asked why was it illegal in the first place?
Well that happen in 1923, and if there was any parliamentary debate, historians have been unable to find a record of it.
In 1923, then Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government introduced an Act of Prohibit the improper us of Opium and other Drugs. The federal health minister at that time, Henri Beland, said the bill was a consolidation of other legislation that have been passed over the previous years, with some changes.
At that time the only drugs on the schedule were opium, morphine, cocaine and eucaine (a local anesthetic first introduces as a substitute to cocaine).
The new bill added three drugs to the prescribed list: heroin, codeine and "Cannabis Indic" (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh.
Carstairs is the author of "Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug use, Regulations and Power in Canada 1920-1961" and chair of the University of Guelph's history department.
The month May 3, when it was the Senate's turn to review the legislation, Raoul Dandurand, the liberal government's leader in the Senate, told his colleagues, "There is only one addition to the schedule: Cannabis Indica (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh".
In what may be the most detailed account of these 1923 events, the authors of the 1991 book "Panic and Indifference: The Politics Of Canada's Drug Laws", state that the health department's narcotic division's files contain a draft bill that DOES NOT include cannabis. There are several carbon copies, and to one of them was added. "Cannabis Indica (Indian Hemp) or hasheesh."
No one seems to know who added the phrase or who ordered it added. But both the House and the Senate agreed to the additions without and further discussion.
https://www.facebook.com/Canadian420nurses
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