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During the administration of American President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1932?1945), the United States saw its first federal-level efforts to control
cannabis as a drug
.
While Roosevelt is known for his opposition to
prohibition of alcohol
, which was repealed in 1933 with the passage of the
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
, in a 1935 radio address he also advocated that the United States apply the rulings of the
International Opium Convention
, which along with opiates also restricted the non-medicinal use of cannabis.
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Federal Bureau of Narcotics
chief
Harry Anslinger
garnered support from the president and Congress for the passage of the
Marihuana Tax Act
, which was signed by Roosevelt and took effect on 1 October, 1937.
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Cannabis policies of U.S. Presidential administrations
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