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There are places that classified marijuana as poison as early as the middle 1800s. The real criminalization didn’t start until the very early 1900s and the final say didn’t happen until the feds got involved in the 1920s. Which just happens to be about the time of Prohibition, brought about by the Progressive Movement.
Pot was not illegal back then because no one was dumb enough to smoke it. The only pot puffers were some marginal people on the fringes such as jazz musicians, some arsty types, a few blacks and a few Hispanics. The white population was at 90% back then and did not touch it