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In honor of the holiday, exhales, let's make marijuana legal. Of course due do the restraints. Let's say only here in Alternate History. So what course of events could be taken to avert Mr. Hearst's wicked game. In the 20's and largely in 30's Hearst endorsed a national sensation to make marijuana illegal. This scam largely ran off overt racism towards African Americans and Hispanics. Newspapers printed articles about black men staring into white men's eyes and raping white women while high on the dangerous drug 'marihuana'. This drug was supposedly brought in by bands of Mexicans. Unknowingly to the American people marijuana was really the flowering bud off of a strain of the hemp plant. This bud had been smoked by Americans for centuries. But under the new law the hemp plant was also banned. The hemp plant was largely grown, well pretty much every where. For all kinds of uses ranging from building material to cosmetics to food. Really Hearst had eliminated his competition in the paper making business. The government cracked down and for the past 74 years. Has cracked down more and more on the plants. So, what could happen to avert this catastrophe.
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