That’s right, 70 years ago this week, the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 took effect, giving life to the federal pot prohibition we’ve all come to know and love. Man, how time flies ...

Instead, it merely printed over existing official documentary stamps picturing long forgotten treasury secretaries with the words "Marihuana Tax Act of 1937" (they were also using the prevailing ...

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, although designed to prevent recreational usage, actually had an unintended side effect: restricting the ability of physicians to obtain marihuana for scientific and ...

This article is more than 4 years old. Until the enactment of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, industrial hemp was a significant agricultural crop in the United States. Clothing and flags were made ...

Hemp production was banned throughout the United States in 1937, with the passing of the Marihuana Tax Act. Two weeks ago, North Carolina’s House and Senate passed a bill that would legalize ...

Despite New York’s efforts to create an equitable cannabis industry, non-citizen immigrants face exclusion due to federal cannabis prohibitions, risking severe immigration consequences.

Not only was Anslinger the loudest and most influential proponent of the ban in the 1930s, but he was also an architect of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 that federalized the ban. What is Ramadan?

The state harkens back to the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 for its chosen spelling of the plant and the Legislature would have to act to officially change the spelling to marijuana. "As governing ...

It was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 that finally pushed cannabis far underground and committed it to become the demonized plant that it has so unfairly become today. Many argue that the catalyst ...

Aaron Romano says many state laws criminalizing marijuana were based on the federal Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, which essentially criminalized marijuana by imposing harsh financial penalties.

Except that there was a problem – the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act made hemp farming illegal. Never mind that hemp lacked the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) necessary to create the narcotic e ...