A brief history of reefer madness as depicted in Life magazine

Marijuana use as pictorialized in various issues of Life magazine.


A teenage girl smokes a marijuana ‘reefer’ in New York in June 1953.


A woman buys joints from a dealer at her door in 1955.


Marijuana seeds and other paraphernalia are found in the car of suspect in the front seat in 1952.


Federal agent Joseph Cavasos aims a pistol at a suspect in 1969. The man had a trunk full of marijuana.


Commercial artist Christine Vasey rolls a joint in 1950.