Oscar Dowling, president of the State Board of Health, told the governor that marijuana, a powerful narcotic, was becoming easier to get, after a 21-year-old musician was jailed for forging a doctor's prescription. He also asked the US surgeon general for federal help. Louisiana pharmacies sold marijuana without a prescription until 1924.[1]
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References
- The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · chapter 2, pp. 42–44 · ISBN 1891385062
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