REEFER MADNESS CALIFORNIA

The New York Times and other papers announce the discovery of marihuana growing in San Quentin (Calif.) Prison yard.   Some had been harvested and smoked by the convicts. ---   --- The Literary Digest (Magazine) Oct 24, 1936

In San Quentin, Ca. and in Colorado State Reformatory, it was found growing within the prison walls, where it was harvested and smoked by some of the inmates.   --- American Journal of the Medical Sciences - 1938 pg 351

On June 7, 1935 it was reported that Marihuana was found to be growing in the San Quentin prison yard.   From some of this cigarettes had been made and smoked by some of the prisoners.   As a result two prisoners were placed in the dungeon.   --- Finger Print & Identification Magazine March 1938 pp3

CALIFORNIA -San Quentin   In July, 1935, prison authorities of San Quentin, California, learned of an effort to trade between Philip Torres, a drug addict, who attempted to sell a tobacco sack filled with prepared marihuana for smoking to another prisoner.   Torres had been employed in the prison garden and when his work was inspected, several flourishing marihuana bushes were found growing on prison grounds.   --- ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN MARIHUANA - aka Gore File

San Quentin, Calif.: Prison authorities at San Quentin Prison learned of a drug addict who attempted to sell a tobacco sack filled with prepared marihuana for smoking to another prisoner.   The addict was employed in the prison garden and when his work was inspected several flourishing marihuana plants were found growing on the prison grounds.   --- Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) Oct. 11, 1936 Don't be a MuggleHead

Convicts at Joliet, Illinois, and San Quentin, California, were discovered growing it in prison garden patches.   Cultivated plots have also been found-and destroyed-in such unexpected districts as Coney Island and the so-called "jungle" near Brooklyn bridge.   --- Physical Culture Magazine – Feb. 1937

Prisoners in San Quentin were even cultivating a secret patch inside their high walls.   --- True Story (Magazine) Dec. 1948

Hemp has been discovered concealed between rows of corn in the prison yards of San Quentin and Colorado State, in window-boxes of New York penthouses and in city lots in the Bronx.   --- The American Scholar Vol.8. No.1 1938-1939

In California the plant was actually found growing in the yard of San Quentin prison;   --- The Conspiracy of Silence (Book) 1938 - by Juanita Hansen and Preston Langley Hickey

Nearly every State has enacted legislation curbing production, and enforcement agents have discovered cultivated plots growing in Maryland, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and even in the San Quentin prison lot.   --- Newsweek (Magazine) Aug 14, 1937

Mr. McCormack:  As a matter of fact, I understand they found that some were grown in one of our Federal prisons.
Mr. Anslinger:  They found some marihuana growing in one of the prisons. We heard of that.
There was a seizure made in the Colorado State Reformatory for boys not long ago.
Mr. McCormack:  Was there not one made at San Quentin?
Mr. Anslinger:  Yes, sir.   --- 1937 Congressional Testimony

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