| They've been trying for decades to scare people about marijuana |
| Year |
Headline |
Publication |
Issue Date |
| 1936 |
Marihuana menaces youth |
Scientific American |
Mar |
| 1936 |
Uncle Sam fights a new drug menace: marijuana |
Popular Science |
May |
| 1936 |
Facts and fancies about marihuana |
Literary Digest |
Oct 24 |
| 1937 |
New federal tax hits dealings in potent weed |
Newsweek |
Aug 14 |
| 1938 |
Marijuana menace |
Literary Digest |
Jan 1 |
| 1938 |
Marijuana, assassin of youth |
Reader's Digest |
Feb |
| 1938 |
Marijuana weed grows where rope factory failed |
Science News Letter |
Jan 15 |
| 1938 |
Marihuana; Mexican dope plant, source of a social problem |
Nature |
May |
| 1938 |
Marihuana more dangerous than heroin or cocaine |
Scientific American |
May |
| 1938 |
Youth gone loco; villain is Marijuana |
Christian Century |
Jun 29 |
| 1938 |
Marihuana smoking seen as epidemic among the idle |
Science News Letter |
Nov 26 |
| 1939 |
Marijuana gives some a jag |
Science News Letter |
Jan 14 |
| 1942 |
Marihuana found useful in certain mental ills |
Science News Letter |
May 30 |
| 1944 |
Tests show marihuana does not help musical ability |
Science Digest |
Jul |
| 1945 |
What happens to marihuana smokers |
Science Digest |
May |
| 1945 |
Marihuana problem |
Science |
May 25 |
| 1945 |
Menace of marijuana |
Science Digest |
Jul |
| 1946 |
Hemp menace |
Business Week |
Jan 12 |
| 1946 |
Marijuana and mentality |
Newsweek |
Nov 18 |
| 1951 |
Marijuana may lurk in window boxes |
Science News Letter |
Jul 28 |
| 1951 |
Saw-toothed marijuana in back yards of the city |
New Yorker |
Aug 11 |
| 1951 |
Marines and marijuana |
Newsweek |
Dec 31 |
| 1952 |
Wicked weed |
Science Digest |
Apr |
| 1965 |
Pot problem; college students use of Marijuana |
Time |
Mar 12 |
| 1965 |
Pot-picking time; boys arrested for growing marijuana in Carpinteria, California |
Newsweek |
May 17 |
| 1966 |
Pot penalties too severe |
Science News |
Oct 8 |
| 1967 |
Risk of marijuana |
New Republic |
Apr 22 |
| 1967 |
Fiedler affair; buffalo university group aims to legalize marijuana |
Newsweek |
Jun 12 |
| 1967 |
Going to pot in Washington; a hippy party |
US News |
May 8 |
| 1967 |
Potted ivy; alienated students smoking marihuana |
Time |
May 19 |
| 1967 |
Marijuana: millions of turned on users |
Life |
Jul 7 |
| 1967 |
Marijuana causes psychiatric dependence says physician |
Today's Health |
Sep |
| 1967 |
Dream farm; field of marijuana destroyed by narcotic agents |
Time |
Sep 8 |
| 1967 |
Marijuana: dangerous as alcohol |
New Republic |
Oct 28 |
| 1967 |
How dangerous is marijuana? a top official sparks new debate |
US News |
Oct 30 |
| 1967 |
Mary Jane in action; GI's arrested in Vietnam on charges of smoking pot |
Newsweek |
Nov 6 |
| 1967 |
Getting tough with pot; marijuana smokers discovered at New Jersey's Hun preparatory school |
Time |
Dec 8 |
| 1967 |
Marijuana is still illegal |
Time |
Dec 29 |
| 1968 |
Marijuana or alcohol, which harms most? |
US News |
Feb 5 |
| 1968 |
Pot: safer than alcohol? |
Time |
Apr 19 |
| 1968 |
Marijuana: just how harmless is it? |
Seventeen |
May |
| 1968 |
Pot and parents; high school kids smoking marijuana |
Time |
Aug 30 |
| 1968 |
If it's pot don't panic |
Science Digest |
Oct |
| 1969 |
Crackdown; sentence of three and a half years in state prison for possession of marijuana |
Nation |
Mar 10 |
| 1969 |
Vietcong's secret weapon: marijuana |
Science Digest |
Apr |
| 1969 |
Warning: steer clear of THC |
Look |
Apr 15 |
| 1969 |
Pot: year of the famine; Mexican border crackdown |
Newsweek |
Sep 22 |
| 1969 |
Nixon's new plan to deal with the marijuana problem |
US News |
Oct 27 |
| 1969 |
Marijuana: the law vs. 12 million people |
Life |
Oct 29 |
| 1969 |
Drug use and the law; a case for legalizing marijuana |
Current |
Dec |
| 1970 |
Pot facing stringent scientific examination |
Science News |
Jan 24 |
| 1970 |
Pot-smoking young executives |
Duns Review |
Feb |
| 1970 |
Pot samplers may be dabbling with psychosis |
Today's Health |
Aug |
| 1970 |
Marijuana: is it time for a change in our laws? |
Newsweek |
Sep 7 |
| 1971 |
Are you growing marijuana without knowing it? |
Home & Garden |
Feb |
| 1971 |
We know too little about marijuana; questions and answers |
Science Digest |
Feb |
| 1971 |
Pot report: still inconclusive |
Time |
Feb 15 |
| 1971 |
Continuing battle over pot |
Science News |
Apr 24 |
| 1971 |
Marijuana harmful? the dispute goes on |
US News |
May 31 |
| 1971 |
Can we counteract the cult of marijuana? |
Parents |
Jul |
| 1971 |
Pot: your kids will encounter it so be prepared |
Business Week |
Dec 4 |
| 1971 |
Cerebral atrophy in marijuana smokers |
Science News |
Dec 18 |
| 1972 |
Marijuana commission finds usage high |
Science News |
Jan 29 |
| 1972 |
Use of satellites in detecting marijuana is studied by US |
Aviation Week |
Jan 31 |
| 1972 |
Last week was a bad week for the narcs; eventual decriminalization of marijuana |
Science News |
Feb 19 |
| 1972 |
Marijuana and health, latest government findings |
US News |
Feb 21 |
| 1972 |
Pot smoking: less harm than feared? |
Science Digest |
Jun |
| 1972 |
Grassing of America |
Saturday Review |
Jul 29 |
| 1972 |
Pot may become a wonder drug |
Science Digest |
Nov |
| 1973 |
Grass grows more acceptable |
Time |
Sep 10 |
| 1973 |
Adolescent marijuana use: role of parents and peers |
Science |
Sep 14 |
| 1973 |
Marijuana vs. the work ethic: the amotivational syndrome |
Science Digest |
Nov |
| 1974 |
Perils of pot start showing up |
US News |
Jun 10 |
| 1974 |
Marijuana, does it damage the brain? |
Science |
Aug 30 |
| 1974 |
Pot as medicine: possible THC-related drugs to prevent transplant rejection and to combat cancer |
Newsweek |
Sep 2 |
| 1974 |
Marijuana: more dangerous than you know |
Reader's Digest |
Dec |
| 1974 |
Pot can harm, but does prison help? |
US News |
Dec 2 |
| 1975 |
Keep off the grass, HEW warns |
Senior Scholastic |
Jan 16 |
| 1975 |
Special: the alarming new evidence about marijuana's effects |
Good Housekeeping |
Feb |
| 1975 |
Survey reports marijuana use has increased |
Psychology Today |
Apr |
| 1975 |
Private use of pot -- a growing public issue |
US News |
Apr 28 |
| 1975 |
Marijuana: possible use as medicine |
Science News |
Oct 25 |
| 1975 |
Alcohol and marijuana: spreading menace among teen-agers |
US News |
Nov 24 |
| 1975 |
Marihuana: new support for immune and reproductive hazards |
Science |
Nov 28 |
| 1976 |
Aggressiveness and pot |
Science Digest |
Jan |
| 1976 |
Joint effort; decriminalizing marijuana |
Seventeen |
Feb |
| 1976 |
Marijuana for better breathing |
Science News |
Jul 24 |
| 1976 |
War over marijuana |
Psychology Today |
Dec |
| 1977 |
All the evidence on pot isn't in! |
Seventeen |
Apr |
| 1978 |
Marijuana as medicine |
Psychology Today |
Apr |
| 1978 |
Marijuana: billion dollar dilemma |
Sat Eve Post |
May |
| 1978 |
Panic over paraquat |
Time |
May 1 |
| 1978 |
Paraquat poisons pot |
Rolling Stone |
May 18 |
| 1978 |
Where the grass is greener; home-grown pot in Oregon and northern California |
Time |
Jun 12 |
| 1978 |
Columbian gold rush of 1978; marijuana smuggling |
Esquire |
Sep 12 |
| 1978 |
Paraquat threat overblown |
Rolling Stone |
Sep 21 |
| 1978 |
Reefer madness |
Progressive |
Oct |
| 1978 |
New bootleggers; marijuana smuggling |
Newsweek |
Oct 30 |
| 1978 |
DEA head wants stricter pot penalties |
New Times |
Nov 27 |
| 1979 |
Spice valley, U.S.A: marijuana moonshiner |
Atlantic Monthly |
Jan |
| 1979 |
Growing acceptance of marijuana |
USA Today (Periodical) |
Feb |
| 1979 |
Marijuana: hints of medicinal value |
FDA Consumer |
Mar |
| 1979 |
Paraquat: now a minor risk |
Newsweek |
Apr 30 |
| 1979 |
White House prepares war on marijuana |
US News |
May 21 |
| 1979 |
Marijuana can be advantageous in varied therapeutic roles |
Science Digest |
Jun |
| 1979 |
Marijuana: the disturbing new facts |
McCall's |
Jun |
| 1979 |
Drug pushers go for even younger prey: grade-school pupils |
US News |
Aug 13 |
| 1979 |
Reefer madness |
New Republic |
Oct 6 |
| 1979 |
World's best pot: California |
US News |
Dec 24 |
| 1980 |
American weed ... it satisfies; pot growing in California |
Esquire |
Jan |
| 1980 |
New parental push against marijuana |
NY Times Magazine |
Feb 10 |
| 1980 |
A new study says that cannabis leads to dependence |
World Health |
Apr |
| 1980 |
Marijuana: now the fears are facts |
Good Housekeeping |
May |
| 1980 |
Kids are smoking pot more and enjoying it more, HEW reports |
Phi Delta Kappan |
Jun |
| 1980 |
Marijuana: the myth of harmlessness goes up in smoke |
Sat Eve Post |
Jul/Aug |
| 1980 |
Pot shots in California [sinsemilla] |
Time |
Oct 20 |
| 1980 |
Marijuana alert II: more of the grim story |
Reader's Digest |
Nov |
| 1981 |
Marijuana as medicine |
McCall's |
Mar |
| 1981 |
Help for marijuana addicts |
Newsweek |
May 11 |
| 1981 |
Marijuana: a U.S. farm crop that's booming |
US News |
Oct 12 |
| 1981 |
Marijuana-heroin link reappraised |
Science News |
Oct 31 |
| 1981 |
Marijuana is far from harmless |
Education Digest |
Nov |
| 1981 |
Pot goes pharmaceutical |
Maclean's |
Nov 23 |
| 1981 |
Marijuana alert III: the devastation of personality |
Reader's Digest |
Dec |
| 1982 |
Marijuana dangers: teen use down |
Science News |
Mar 6 |
| 1982 |
Marijuana "justifies serious concern" |
Science |
Mar 19 |
| 1982 |
While U.S. farms go bust, some growers are cashing in on the profits of pot |
People |
May 10 |
| 1982 |
Pot-spraying plan raises some smoke |
Science |
Jul 30 |
| 1982 |
Is it time to worry about marijuana? |
Mademoiselle |
Nov |
| 1983 |
Pot-talk: is decriminalization advisable? |
National Review |
Apr 29 |
| 1983 |
Pot-smokers may be imperiled by paraquat-spraying program |
Science News |
Aug 27 |
| 1983 |
The marijuana wars |
Newsweek |
Aug 29 |
| 1984 |
Great-grandmother, 84, arrested in pot raid |
Jet |
Jul 30 |
| 1984 |
California's war against pot |
Newsweek |
Oct 8 |
| 1985 |
Marijuana report: the latest dope on its dangers |
Mademoiselle |
Jun |
| 1985 |
Here comes prescription pot |
Business Week |
Jun 24 |
| 1985 |
The great pot raid -- how much good? |
US News |
Aug 19 |
| 1985 |
Killer weed [marijuana growing on public lands in the West] |
Omni |
Sep |
| 1986 |
Reagan aide: pot can make you gay |
Newsweek |
Oct 27 |
| 1987 |
Marijuana update: new reasons to "keep off the grass" |
Current Health 2 |
Mar |
| 1987 |
Marijuana use may cause mental problems: study |
Jet |
Sep 28 |
| 1987 |
Reefer madness |
Nation |
Nov 21 |
| 1988 |
The perils of pot |
Discover |
Jun |
| 1988 |
Take two puffs and call me in the morning |
Science News |
Feb 20 |
| 1988 |
Lungs hit harder by pot than by cigarettes |
Science News |
Feb 20 |
| 1988 |
Marijuana: is there new reason to worry? |
American Health |
Mar |
| 1988 |
'Marco polo' of Marijuana |
Newsweek |
Aug 8 |
| 1988 |
A bumper crop of hothouse marijuana |
Newsweek |
Aug 15 |
| 1989 |
Marijuana and learning: grass gets an F |
Current Health |
Jan |
| 1989 |
Marijuana mangles memory |
Science News |
Nov 18 |
| 1990 |
Marijuana makes a comeback |
Madmoiselle |
Oct |
| 1993 |
Turning over a new, old leaf |
Newsweek |
Feb 8 |
| 1993 |
Hello again, Mary Jane [pot in music] |
Time |
Apr 19 |
| 1993 |
Selling pot: the pitfalls of marijuana reform |
Reason |
Jun |
| 1993 |
Reefer returns |
Seventeen |
Sep |
| 1993 |
The professor smells smoke in Harlem |
The New Yorker |
Nov 22 |
| 1994 |
Reefer madness at Havatampa: pot smokers are stoking sales by turning Phillies Blunts into joints |
Business Week |
Jan 24 |
| 1994 |
Reefer Madness |
Atlantic |
Aug |
| 1996 |
Reefer madness |
American Health |
Jan/Feb |
| 1996 |
The return of reefer madness |
Progressive |
May |
| 1996 |
No wonder you can't resist: chocolate and marijuana share some chemistry |
Time |
Sep 2 |
| 1996 |
Getting over getting stoned |
Time |
Sep 16 |
| 1996 |
Kids & pot |
Time |
Dec 9 |
| 1996 |
Give pot a chance: voters in California and Arizona strike a blow against the war on drugs |
Rolling Stone |
Dec 26 |
| 1996 |
They're toking up for algebra class |
US News |
Dec 30 |
| 1997 |
The war over weed |
Newsweek |
Feb 3 |
| 1997 |
The return of pot |
New Republic |
Feb 17 |
| 1997 |
Reefer madness: why the Clinton administartion is terrified by medical marijuana |
Reason |
Mar |
| 1997 |
More reefer madness |
Atlantic |
Apr |
| 1997 |
I was addicted to pot |
'Teen |
May |
| 1997 |
Marijuana: useful medicine or dangerous drug? |
Consumers' Research |
May |
| 1997 |
Marijuana: harder than thought? |
Science |
Jun 27 |
| 1998 |
Marijuana -- a mind altering drug |
Current Health 2 |
Mar |
| 1998 |
The war over weed |
Newsweek |
Mar 16 |
| 1998 |
The battle for medical marijuana in the war on drugs |
America |
Apr 11 |
| 1998 |
A flow of powerful pot |
Maclean's |
Aug 3 |
| 2000 |
The world's best pot now comes from Vancouver |
Time |
Mar 13 |
| 2001 |
'They become raving maniacs' [views of E. Murphy about marijuana use] |
Maclean's |
Aug 6 |
| 2001 |
Reefer madness: the sequel |
Maclean's |
Aug 6 |
| 2001 |
Europe goes to pot |
Time |
Aug 20 |
| 2001 |
Kentucky's homegrown rebellion |
Rolling Stone |
Oct 11 |
| 2001 |
Ashcroft's other war [med pot in California] |
Rolling Stone |
Dec 27 |