Marijuana Virginia

Virginia colonists begin to plant hemp (marijuana). Its main use, however, will be making rope for ships. 

Students report that at two prestigious Virginia boarding schools, boys with prescriptions for Ritalin—a drug for attention deficit disorder— have been selling their pills to classmates looking to get high. At one school, a student said, Ritalin rivals acid and marijuana. ... 

Richard J. Bonnie and Charles H. Whitebread II, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, Virginia Law Review 56, no. 6, October 1970, p. 53. 

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