How long has Cannabis been illegal?

Question

Hey I was wondering if anyone could tell me when was cannabis made illegal. And if you could tell me any thing else about the legalisation of cannabis it would be helpful.

Cheerz.

If you could tell me it was made illegal in Australia that would be awsum.

Answer 1

How cannabis was criminalised.
Cannabis first became illegal in the UK, and most of the rest of the world, on 28th September 1928 when the 1925 Dangerous Drugs Act came into force. There were no British domestic reasons, no lobbying for or against prohibition, and no Parliamentary debates. The Act controlling 'Indian Hemp and all resins and preparations based thereon' had been passed after Britain signed the 1925 Geneva International Convention on Narcotics Control, organised by the League of Nations. Asked what it was all about on a slow day in Parliament, a junior Home Office Minister explained that the Convention could not be ratified without an 'important but small' law being passed. 'What it does is include coca leaves under a former Act. They are the real basis of cocaine - we place them in the same category as raw opium.' Cannabis itself was ever mentioned aloud.

Trust the Brits!

Answer 2

It's been illegal since the governemnt found out they couldn't make money off of it. So pretty much almost always except for the Marijuana Stamp Act, as was said in another answer.

Answer 3

What law could the government use to make a plant illegal? I think that marijuana could never be made illegal.You'd probably have better luck making strychnine or arsenic illegal.Where do you go for definitive in law?

Answer 4

It was criminalized in 1937 with the marijuana tax act. It was criminalized to remove hemp from the market to give synthetic fibers a monoply (which is illegal but those ******* politicians did it anyway).

Answer 5

it was criminalized in the 1930's to help deport Mexican laborers in the south.