Alarmist anti-marijuana film posters, 1936-1950

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The recreational cannabis smoking took on a negative connotation in the American cultural imagination when people began to associate it with Mexican immigrants arriving in the US. After the Mexican Revolution of 1910, a wave of Mexican immigrants poured into the southwestern U.S. which helped popularize the recreational use of the drug. Many Mexican laborers […]

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