1938: MARIJUANA IN 1930'S SOCIETY

Maybe you saw that campy move, "Reefer Magic," wherein a clean cut young man goes absolutely bananas while under the influence of the weed. Strangely, there is little mention of drug use in the newspapers of the past. Perhaps an occasional article on Opium, and another here and there, but certainly nowhere near the plague that drugs have become in the latter part of the 20'th century into the present.