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Research associate and later director Carlton Turner (former Drug Czar under Ronald Reagan) examining cannabis grown at the University of Mississippi’s Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Medical Gardens, Mississippi late 1970’s
‘500 marijuana plants were seized in the basement of an empty warehouse on 3rd Street. SFPD Crime Lab Investigator Bob Fitzer dusted the indoor grow lights for finger prints just before the SFPD and members of the DEA began to Read More …
‘Deputy Police Commissioner John Morris holds marijuana plants as piles of confiscated marijuana burn in the background.’ New York City 1942
‘A Lot of Marijuana’ – Journal-American reporter Sid Livingston and NYC officials view an Astoria vacant lot overrun with marijuana plants that have been scheduled for spraying with insecticide. Queens, New York June 16, 1951
Harold Rosenbaum, Assistant District Attorney, Frank Creta, and James Stevens size up some marijuana plants growing in a Brooklyn back yard. Brooklyn, New York 1951
‘Detective Sgt. Melvin Fuller With Confiscated Marijuana Plants in the back of a pickup truck.’ Ann Arbor, Michigan July 1954
New York police officers examine confiscated marijuana plants, New York 1950’s
“A San Franciscan was scheduled to go into court today to explain why he was growing marijuana in the front yard of his home. Rinaldo Gotti was arrested by State Narcotic Inspector Bernard Blonder and Agents Ed Oliva and William Read More …
‘Portrait of a hippie surrounded by marijuana plants’ in Kathmandu, Nepal 1971
An unidentified chemist holds a container of marijuana plants found by police in an apartment in Northwest Washington D.C. in 1973.