Modelled on the federal Harrison Act, the law banned transferring marijuana except for medical purposes but did not ban possessing it, because constitutional doctrine of the time discouraged reaching private conduct. In 1923 the legislature banned possession with intent to sell, and only in 1931, after alcohol prohibition had removed the old objection, possession itself.[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. 37–38, 40 · ISBN 1891385062
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