Virginia had adopted the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act in 1934 without its optional cannabis section. After rumours that Roanoke schoolchildren were using marijuana, a federal narcotics agent helped obtain a city ordinance and then a state bill banning sale, possession and cultivation, with one to ten years in the penitentiary. It passed both houses unanimously.[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 5, pp. 112–114 · ISBN 1891385062
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