n assumptions made about marijuana, such things as it provoked violent crime and caused insanity.
Strategies of fighting marijuana were silence and exaggeration. People believed that by not telling their children about marijuana, then they would not become curious and not experiment with it. In the 1930's it was deemed that schools could not talk about marijuana. The Motion Picture Association of America banned all films that showed narcotics from 1934-1956 (Musto 4
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