7. Cannabis Demographics

Citations:

1. Isaac Campos, "Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States: A Reassessment," The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 32 (2018); George Fisher, "Racial Myths of the Cannabis War," Boston University Law Review 101, no. 933 (2021); Dale Gieringer, "The Forgotten Origins of Cannabis Prohibition in California," Contemporary Drug Problems 26, no. 2 (1999); Adam R. Rathge, "Cannabis Cures: American Medicine, Mexican Marijuana, and the Origins of the War on Weed, 1840-1937" (PhD Diss., Boston University, 2017). For more on New Orleans in the 1920s, see also Rathge’s “Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920-1930.”

2. I run down the development of the “Mexican Hypothesis” and its various iterations in “Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition.” George Fisher in “Racial Myths” argues that these laws were mainly about “protecting Whites” rather than harassing immigrants. In a new as yet unpublished manuscript, Dale Gieringer makes a similar argument about early California opium laws.