{"id":2848,"date":"2026-04-16T03:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/1926-the-year-america-almost-got-it-right-about-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:03:40","slug":"1926-the-year-america-almost-got-it-right-about-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/1926-the-year-america-almost-got-it-right-about-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"1926: The Year America Almost Got It Right About Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_B0UM_1926hemp.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>Read it carefully and you&#8217;ll find something remarkable \u2014 not alarm, not moral panic, but a measured, almost bored scientific assessment. Dr. W.W. Stockberger of the Bureau of Plant Industry told the publication there was &#8220;no reason to become excited about a sporadic outbreak of hasheesh addiction.&#8221; Hemp had been growing wild across America for years. Workers labored in hemp fields their whole lives and &#8220;never became addicts.&#8221; Cannabis had a &#8220;large and legitimate use in veterinary medicine.&#8221; It grew wild from the Atlantic coast to the Western plains. It was, in the view of the government&#8217;s own plant scientists, a weed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it carefully and you&#8217;ll find something remarkable \u2014 not alarm, not moral panic, but a measured, almost bored scientific assessment. Dr. W.W. Stockberger of the Bureau of Plant Industry told the publication there was &#8220;no reason to become excited about a sporadic outbreak of hasheesh addiction.&#8221; Hemp had been growing wild across America for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}