I'm not sure if anyone else saw this but last week I was channel surfing and came accross a documentary style show talking about the history of MJ and how/why it became a regulated substance. According to the show durning the depression since there was a lack of jobs certain states (mostly west coast) lobbied the federal gov and to make MJ a controlled substance. The reason was not the worry of health reasons or anything like that, although they were trying to tell the general public that it was the cause for concern. The major reason was that it was know that mexicans smoked weed and to lessen the number of mexicans in the job pool these western states wanted MJ outlawed. Apperently there was opposition against this. Not only was weed popular during the probabition since it was the only way to get trashed, but it is a weed and no one was interested in trying regulate a weed. It would just be too hard. But with the pressures from the western states MJ was listed as a control substance at the same time as cocaine.

I was not sure about this story but checked to see what channel I was watching and saw it was the history channel. Gotta think there is some validity to this if it is on the history channel.