A directive in São Luís, capital of the northern state of Maranhão, prohibited the sale, public exhibition and smoking of cannabis. Slaves who broke it were to be punished with four days in jail. The city had already issued a directive in 1866, one of several municipal bans that followed Rio de Janeiro's of 1830.[1]
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