I thought the prejudice against cannabis started back in the 1930s, but isn’t it odd, to us all that this country was the one that stigmatized generations of cannabis users as druggies, hippies, etc and made it in ‘straight’ peoples minds that it was illicit and dangerous, that this prejudice then spread to many other countries such as my own, who even today though they do have a more relaxed attitude to ‘weed’ still criminalize everyone who uses it regularly and illegally. How can one countries laws be exported to other countries where they should have no jurisdiction. This is what we tirelessly fought against in the U.K. for years. Not the fact that it was illegal but why does our government follow United States laws when they don’t follow ours. They would say that cannabis legality was not based on evidence for or against cannabis usage in the Americas, but based around the scientific evidence that it was dangerous to young people and their minds, as well as that they could find no scientific evidence that cannabis had any medical value at all.... That science has improved massively to the point now that they know it is a benefit, especially for those with M.S. yet they still re catorgorized it from class c, I think back into the class a category, but I have not lived in that country for over 15 yrs now so I am probably wrong on that. You had Nixon, we had Thatcher....