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🌱 #Cannabis 🇺🇸 was seen as a cheaper alternative to #alcohol after the #EighteenthAmendment to the #UnitedStatesConstitution imposed national ⛔ 🚠#Prohibition from 1920 until its 1933 repeal.[25] Later in the 1920s, tensions grew as small farms resented larger ones for relying on cheaper #Mexican labor. Shortly afterwards, the 😢 #GreatDepression increased the scarcity of jobs & resources, suggesting that early #marijuana regulation was #racially motivated.[26]
#Hanfwissen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States