Of course the foundation of the law matters. Of course I was challenging your claim that problems arising from accessibility were the reason the laws were passed.
The answer to the caffeine in Coke question was it was substituted for cocaine, which was in the original formula. The substitution was required because cocaine was made illegal.
"In 1937 Congressional hearings Harry J. Anslinger pushed as a factual statement that about 50% of all violent crime in the US was committed by Spaniards, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Filipinos, Negroes, and Greeks and that these crimes could be traced directly to marijauna. Not one of Anslinger's marijuana 'Gore Files' of the 1930s is believed to be true by scholars who have painstakingly checked the facts.*
*Sloman, Larry; Reefer Madness, 1979; Bonnie and Whitebread, The Marijuana Conviction, Univ. of Virginia Press, 1974"
From 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes', 7th Edition, by Jack Herer
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