Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...cents' worth of a certain bird seed, planted in any back yard, will grow into a yardful of marijuana. Marijuana is a variety of hemp weed (Cannabis sativa) long common in Mexico, lately becoming common in the U. S. Its leaves can be dried, ground and rolled into cigarets, which are bootlegged under the name of "muggles," "reefers," or "Mary Warners." Thinner, shorter than standard cigarets, "muggles" are made from the small delicate leaves of the female marijuana plant. The male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced...
Last week in Philadelphia U. S. Customs officials discovered a ten-acre patch of marijuana. Marketed in cigarets it would have yielded a $125,000 profit.* Though it was apparently growing wild, the agents were sure so much marijuana had not sprung up by chance. Carefully guarding the secret of its location, they hurried to the Board of Health, had the marijuana patch declared a menace to public health and ordered burned with great public stench...