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The answer to the trivia question in this video regarding the first
marijuana arrest is incorrect. The answer provided is correct for the first
federal arrest. However, according to Huffington Post and historian Dale
Gieringer, California was the first to enact laws against it in 1913. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/marijuana-history-united-states_n_3736586.html
Looking further to California NORML’s website shows me “In what may be the
first marihuana cultivation bust in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times
reported that two ‘dream gardens’ containing $500 worth of Indian hemp or
‘marahuana’ had been eradicated (Sep. 10, 1914).” Then they go on to say
“other states banned cannabis in the 1910s: Massachusetts in 1911; Maine,
Wyoming and Indiana in 1913; New York City in 1914; Utah and Vermont in
1915; Colorado and Nevada in 1917.” http://www.canorml.org/background/ca1913.html
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The answer to the trivia question in this video regarding the first
marijuana arrest is incorrect. The answer provided is correct for the first
federal arrest. However, according to Huffington Post and historian Dale
Gieringer, California was the first to enact laws against it in 1913.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/marijuana-history-united-states_n_3736586.html
Looking further to California NORML’s website shows me “In what may be the
first marihuana cultivation bust in the U.S., the Los Angeles Times
reported that two ‘dream gardens’ containing $500 worth of Indian hemp or
‘marahuana’ had been eradicated (Sep. 10, 1914).” Then they go on to say
“other states banned cannabis in the 1910s: Massachusetts in 1911; Maine,
Wyoming and Indiana in 1913; New York City in 1914; Utah and Vermont in
1915; Colorado and Nevada in 1917.”
http://www.canorml.org/background/ca1913.html
Thanks Josh! Ill be filling in correct info this sunday. Right on man