Talk:Legal history of cannabis in the United States

Added history 1850-1900, expanded history 1906-1923
I added the section Regulations on narcotics (1850s-1900s) with the subsections Pharmaceutical regulations and "sale of poisons" laws and Adulteration laws and the subsection Strengthening of poison laws (1906-1923) under the next heading (Criminalization (1900s)). This period of history was missing, giving the misimpression that restrictions on cannabis didn't begin until the 1900s. In fact there were two states (Wisconsin and Louisiana) that had required a prescription for cannabis, and New York almost passed a similar law as far back as 1860. Brianshapiro (talk)

Four Americans get medical weed from the federal government
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-americans-get-medical-pot-from-the-feds/

An interesting fact. "The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country's first legal pot smoker. ... At one point, 14 people were getting government pot. Now, there are four left. ... Agency officials said records related to the program before 2005 had been destroyed, but were able to provide scattered records for a couple of years in the early 2000s."

Is this worth noting in the article? VintageVernacular (talk) 22:36, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is covered in the section Compassionate IND program (1978).--Jamesy0627144 (talk) 03:18, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Is that section precisely accurate? CBS says 14, our section (which is cited) says 13. VintageVernacular (talk) 04:15, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thirteen seems to be the correct number of grandfathered patients from a google search. CBS article says "At one point, 14 people were getting government pot", so one of the patients could have died or quite for some reason before the program ended.-- Jamesy0627144 (talk) 02:12, 29 August 2023 (UTC)