Weed Used to Grow Wild in NYC Until Cops Eradicated It in the ‘50s

Merry Jane
Oct 28, 2019, 2:07 pm142 pts
Image via the Brooklyn Public Library Despite New York City's reputation as one of the most liberal cities in the US, it continues to uphold archaic cannabis prohibition laws, despite the fact that neighboring states have embraced legalization. By the early 2010s, NYPD made more weed arrests than anywhere else…

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