New York Times cannabis-related articles

Articles published in the late 1920s and 1930s in The New York Times and concerning cannabis.

• "Smoking Marihuana Upheld in Panama" 9 September 1929
• "Hobson Tells of New Menace" 5 March 1931
• "Government Will Ask States To Ban Growing of Marijuana" 16 September 1931
• "Says Our Dry Law Aids Narcotic Evil" 23 December 1931
• "Cuba Growing Marihuana" 4 December 1932
• "Dope Ring Specialized In Mexican Marijuana" 3 December 1933
• "Use of Marijuana Spreading in West" 16 September 1934
• "West Indians Riot After Colon Killing" 6 October 1934
• "Narcotic `Garden' Found in Brooklyn" 18 October 1934
• "Narcotic Bonfire Routs Officials" 19 October 1934
• "Brooklyn and Baghdad" 20 October 1934
• "Orders for Narcotic Traced to CCC Camp" 30 October 1934
• "Rhode Island to End Weed as Drug Source" 20 January 1935
• "Seized for Selling Opiate to Troops" 23 January 1935
• "New Mexico Moves to Ban Marijuana" 14 April 1935
• "Marijuana Patch at Jail" 17 July 1935
• "Quotas" (letter to the editor) 15 September 1935
• "Police Study Marijuana To Kill Growing Crops" 24 July 1936
• "Seize Marihuana Crops" 28 July 1936
• "$3,000,000 Bonfire Destroys Marijuana" (with photo) 14 August 1936
• "5 Acres of Marijuana Uprooted by Police; Barren Island Goats Were Thriving on It" (with photo) 19 August 1936
• "Marihuana Farm Found in Maryland" 4 October 1936
• "Police Ruse Traps 10 in Marijuana Raid" 28 October 1936
• "Campaign Battles Marihuana Weed" 3 January 1937
• "World Group to Push Fight on Marijuana" 21 February 1937
• "Two Colleges Deny Marijuana Invasion" 22 March 1937
• "War on Marihuana Urged on Parents" 4 May 1937

For a graph of how price estimates for the street value of marijuana changed during the 1930s in New York (as shown in the above articles), click here.

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