The real reason

[strawjack]

Was racism and money. Shocking.

In case you didn't know.

“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” He also proclaimed, “You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

https://www.whaxy.com/learn/the-man-...na-prohibition

[t-the-east]

What a dick....

Although this poster would be pretty cool for the garage

[KQ]

Hearst, according to one biography, “…hated minorities, and he used his chain of newspapers to aggravate racial tensions at every opportunity. ”His motives were understandable: He lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa during the Mexican revolution. His means of institutionalizing his bigotry, however, were less deserving of empathy.

I call bullshit - there is no "understandable" or as the above statement seems to imply "justifiable" reason for bigotry IMO.

[Game Over]

I thought it had a little to do with William Randolf Hurst and his vast paper mills vs. the hemp industry and its superior paper.