William C. Woodward, legislative counsel of the American Medical Association, was the last witness at the House hearings and the only one against the bill.[1][2] No evidence had been produced from prisons or from the Children's Bureau to back the claims, he said, and a prohibitive tax would shut out medical uses still worth study.[1] Weeks later a congressman told the House floor that the association supported the bill.[2]
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References
- Wikipedia — Marihuana Tax Act of 1937archived
- The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · ISBN 1891385062
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