Poster
Inter-State Narcotic Association Marijuana Warning Poster
![Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and Old--People in All Walks of Life! This [Marijuana Cigarette] may be handed you by the friendly stranger. It contains the Killer Drug "Marihuana"--a powerful narcotic in which lurks Murder! Insanity! Death! WARNING! Dope peddlers are shrewd! They may put some of this drug in the [teapot] or in the [cocktail] or in the tobacco cigarette."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700007130020/0713000082-l.jpg "Inter-State Narcotic Association Marijuana Warning Poster")
| Enlarged version of a mocking "warning card" to be placed in railroad trains, buses, streetcars, and other public forums. Warning reads, "Beware! Young and Old--People in All Walks of Life! This [Marijuana Cigarette] may be handed you by the friendly stranger. It contains the Killer Drug "Marihuana"--a powerful narcotic in which lurks Murder! Insanity! Death! WARNING! Dope peddlers are shrewd! They may put some of this drug in the [teapot] or in the [cocktail] or in the tobacco cigarette." |
| Image ID: | 56411 |
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| Creation Date: | 09 1971 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Madison People's poster and propaganda collection collected by J. Wesley Miller, 1969-1976 |
| Genre: | Poster |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 4003, Box 42, Folder 3 |
| Original Dimensions: | 22 x 17 inches |
| "25-IX-71" appearing on the front refers to its date of acquisition by J. Wesley Miller: September 25, 1971. Notation "at Dana Beal gathering," further suggests that the content of this poster is not in earnest. |
| Men |
| Plants |
| Women |
| Political posters |
| Drug abuse |
| Narcotics |
| Smoking |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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