The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition
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VoLuME 56 OCTOBER 1970 NUMBER 6
THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE:
AN INQUIRY INTO THE LEGAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN
MARIJUANA PROHIBITION
Richard J. Bonnie* & Charles H. Whitebread, II**
Mr. Snell. What is the bill?
Mr. Rayburn. It has something to do with somethhzg that is called
marihuana. I believe it is a narcotic of some kind.
Colloquy on the House floor prior to
passage of the Marihuana Tax Act.
*Assistant Professor of Law, University of Virginia. B.A., 1966, Johns Hopkins
University; LL.B., 1969, University of Virginia.
'Assistant Professor of Law, University of Virginia. A.B., 1965, Princeton Uni-
versity; LL.B, 1968, Yale University.
We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the students who assisted us in the
preparation of the tables at Appendix A. Because the drug statutes of the several
states are particularly confusing and difficult to find, and because so many jurisdictions
have recently changed their drug laws, the preparation of the chart required long,
tedious work which so many were kind enough to perform. To them, our most
sincere thanks.
We should like to thank especially Michael A. Cohen, John F. Kuether, W. Tracey
Shaw, Alan K. Smith, and Allan J. Tanenbaum, all students at the University of Vir-
ginia School of Law, whose research assistance and tireless effort were invaluable.
We are particularly indebted to Professor Jerry Mandel who supplied us with
much of the raw data used in the historical case studies in this Article. In his excel-
lent article on drug statistics in the Stanford Law Review, Problems with Official Drug
Statistics, 21 STAN. L. REv. 991 (1969), Professor Mandel suggested in a footnote that
someone should attempt a history of the passage of anti-marijuana legislation. We have
followed his suggestion and earnestly hope that our product will fill this gap.
A modified and expanded version of this Article will be published in book form in the
spring of 1971.
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