Adam Ruins Everything: Political Origins of US Cannabis Prohibition
Dropout · Comedy · 6 min · 2016 · YouTube title: The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal | Adam Ruins Everything
Why it's here
Used as a pop-culture shorthand explanation for the political origins of drug laws.
What it covers
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that US cannabis prohibition grew out of racially and politically motivated agendas under Nixon and earlier, rather than scientific evidence.