The legislature listed marijuana among the habit-forming drugs in a comprehensive narcotics bill drafted by an American Medical Association committee. Bonnie and Whitebread found only four brief references to marijuana in the New York Times between 1914 and 1927, and none in the comment after the act passed.[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. 50 · ISBN 1891385062
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