Popular media amplified concerns about the dangers of marijuana and linked the drug to Mexican immigrants, as seen in this article from The Ogden Standard from September 1915 University of Utah/Marriott Library
The true tale of marijuana’s arrival in the US may have been obscured by a useful fiction that was devised and spread during the fight to legalise the drug during the 1960s and 1970s. Many reputable sources still repeat the story that Mexican immigrants introduced the recreational use of cannabis to the US after the Mexican Revolution began in 1910. They will also repeat that the…
