in 1937 Marihuana Tax Act was passed that heavly taxed marijuana, but when was marijuana made illegal?

Question

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When did the federal law pass?

Answer 1

Until 1937, consumption and sale of cannabis was legal in most U.S. states. In some areas it could be openly purchased in bulk from grocers or in cigarette form at newsstands, though an increasing number of states had begun to outlaw it. In that year, federal law made possession or transfer of cannabis without the purchase of a by-then-incriminating tax stamp illegal throughout the United States by passing the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. This was contrary to the advice of the American Medical Association at the time. Legal opinions of the time held that the federal government could not outlaw it entirely. The tax was $100 per pound of hemp, even for clothes or rope. The expense, extremely high for the time, was such that people stopped openly buying and making it.

Answer 2

In 1915, Utah became the first state to have a prohibition of marijuana.

On August 3, 1937, marijuana became illegal on the federal level with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act, because of the lies that were told about it.