⛔ Ban · · United States
El Paso bans marijuana
The Texas border city's ordinance was the first American measure to draw on Mexican beliefs that marijuana caused madness and violence. Between 1915 and 1930 practically every state west of the Mississippi passed an anti-marijuana law.
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