Marijuana Prohibition Is Unscientific A few days before the House of Representatives passed a federal ban on marijuana in June 1937, the Republican minority leader, Bertrand Snell of New York, confessed, “I do not know anything about the bill.” The Democratic majority leader, Sam Rayburn of Texas, educated him. “It has something to do with … Continue reading Marijuana Prohibition Is Unjust, Unscientific, & Unconstitutional.