How New England’s puritan attitudes aligned against weed
“Next to obscene pictures, probably no vice is so absolutely destructive of manhood as the ‘dope vice,'” said the New England Watch and Ward Society’s 1912 report.
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The origin of turning Boston’s ‘polite society’ against cannabis
Over 100 years ago, cannabis was still processed and used in a variety of ways. Back then, edible cannabis was often portrayed as dangerous and exotic in origin. Smokable cannabis was typically associated with minorities in the South.
