In January 1914 New York State passed its first comprehensive narcotics law, the Boylan Act, without cannabis. A few months later the city's Board of Health added cannabis indica to the sanitary code's list of drugs sold only on prescription. The New York Times called the move common sense, while admitting that hashish users were hardly numerous enough to count.[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, p. 49 · ISBN 1891385062
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