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Also, for the "Why Marijuana is illegal."

I'm not quite sure. Had something to do with Prohibition....

That failed so those people started focusing on weed.

At the time Drugs were considered an actual constitutionally protected right though.

So they couldn't outright make it illegal.

Instead they made it so that only some people could sell it who had "stamps" for it.

Then they refused to give the stamps out to just about everybody.

And that kept up until people eventually didn't consider it a right anymore.