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  • Cannabis Discourses, 1910-1919
    • 1. Project Description
    • 2. Cannabis Historiography
    • 3. What We Do and Don't Know About Early Cannabis Prohibitions in the US
    • 4. The Data and Methodology
    • 5. Is the Word "Marijuana" Racist
    • 6. Cannabis Effects
    • 7. Cannabis Demographics
    • 8. Cannabis Geography
    • Appendix: Guide to Using the Interactive Map
    • Appendix: The Research Team and Other Support
  • Home
  • About
    • 1. Project Description
    • 2. Cannabis Historiography
    • 3. What We Do and Don't Know About Early Cannabis Prohibitions in the US
    • 4. The Data and Methodology
    • 5. Is the Word "Marijuana" Racist
    • 6. Cannabis Effects
    • 7. Cannabis Demographics
    • 8. Cannabis Geography
    • Appendix: Guide to Using the Interactive Map
    • Appendix: The Research Team and Other Support

 8. Cannabis Geography

Citations:

  1. David F. Musto, "The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937," Archives of General Psychiatry 26, no. 2 (1972); Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. Whitebread II, The Marihuana Conviction:  A History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1974); Adam R. Rathge, "Cannabis Cures: American Medicine, Mexican Marijuana, and the Origins of the War on Weed, 1840-1937" (PhD Diss., Boston University, 2017); George Fisher, "Racial Myths of the Cannabis War," Boston University Law Review 101, no. 933 (2021).

  2. On this, see my Home Grown, especially Chapters 1 and 7.

  3. See, for example: “New Phases of the Drug Crusade,” The Sun, July 30, 1914, p 6. and “Marihuana May Not Be Grown in this City,” Arizona Republican, May 17, 1917, p 7.