David Malmo-Levine has been writing about - and organizing civil disobedience involving - cannabis since 1993. He has a couple of websites: pot-facts.ca, involving facts that will help transform cannabis regulations from "hard drug regs" to "soft drug regs," and pot-shot.ca, a collection of his writings and publications and (soon) videos. David is an anarchist - he doesn't need any rulers thank you very much.
The conclusions from Dr. Robert Heath’s 1970s “pot smoke kills brain cells in monkeys” fraudulent research would be repeated over and over again in the mass media in the 1980s
The 1970s. Prohibitionist tactics became much more sophisticated. Instead of the ancient techniques of limiting cannabis use to those of special status or associating unsanctioned use with devil worship
In this chapter, DML provides many examples of the 3 conceptual devices used by prohibitionists in the second decade of the 20th century to set the stage for cannabis prohibition