Marihuana Tax Act

The Marihuana Tax Act is an adopted law the August 2nd 1937 with the the United States, founding the tax on all the actors of the die Chanvre: commercial importers, producers, industrialists users, intermediaries, prescribers such as the dentists, doctors and veterinary surgeons…

Without criminaliser directly the Cannabis, this law founded heavy sorrows (2000 dollars of fine and up to five years of imprisonment) in the event of infringement, which dissuaded its use, taking into account the importance of the risk.

The law was presented to the Congrès by Harry J. Anslinger, police chief of the Federal office of the opiates, after ten years of intensive lobbying, with the racist relents, for a federal legislation on hemp.

One can notice the use of the orthography today not very widespread of “marihuana” transcription in English of the pronunciation of “marijuana” (Marijuana in Spanish): it was the usual form in the federal documents of the time, and which perdure until today, witness law HR 3037 of the congress voted in 2005 on the culture of industrial hemp. Condemned in 1965 to 30 years of reclusion for illegal possession of marijuana under the terms of the Marihuana Tax Act , Timothy Leary made call while pleading that this law was anticonstitutional under the terms of the Fifth amendment, since the person eager to discharge the tax was to accuse itself. The Supreme court gave him win in 1969. The Controlled Substances Act was voted to replace 1970.

This law involved collapse in the United States of America of the production of hemp, of followed a fall world of its use in paper.

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