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04-18-2016, 11:21 PM
13 alarmist marijuana posters from the 'Reefer Madness' era
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1942
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Though hemp was grown as a fiber by the earliest American colonists, and cannabis was used as an ingredient in medicines throughout the 19th century, recreational cannabis smoking first took on a negative con**tation in the American cultural imagination when people began to associate it with Mexican immigrants arriving in the country after the revolution of 1910.
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1942
Image: Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images
Though hemp was grown as a fiber by the earliest American colonists, and cannabis was used as an ingredient in medicines throughout the 19th century, recreational cannabis smoking first took on a negative con**tation in the American cultural imagination when people began to associate it with Mexican immigrants arriving in the country after the revolution of 1910.
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