13 alarmist marijuana posters from the 'Reefer Madness' era
 

13 alarmist marijuana posters from the 'Reefer Madness' era
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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.

Many Mexican laborers *****d marijuana to unwind, as a cheaper alternative to ******* during Prohibition. The drug became associated with immigrants, tied up in xe**phobic fears and resentments during the Great Depression. Read more...

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