William Creighton Woodward

And in the 1920s, American physicians wrote 3 million prescriptions a year that contained cannabis.

In fact, in 1937, the American Medical Association in the person of Dr. William C. Woodward, former commissioner of health for Washington, D.C., health commissioner for Boston, former president of the American Public Health Association, a doctor and an attorney, and the AMA's chief legal counsel since 1924, in his testimony, he said that the AMA knew of no problems with the medical use of cannabis, that there's no difficulty with that.

And that was in 1937.

And by the way, at that time, there were 25 over-the-counter medications that you could get without a prescription available in pretty much every drugstore in the land.

And in the 1920s, American physicians wrote 3 million prescriptions a year that contained cannabis.

In fact, in 1937, the American Medical Association, in the person of Dr. William C. Woodward, former Commissioner of Health for Washington, DC, Health Commissioner for Boston, former president of the American Public Health Association, a doctor and an attorney, and the AMA's Chief Legal Counsel since, uh, 1924, in his testimony, he said that the AMA knew of no, uh, problems with the medical use of cannabis, that there weren't, there's no difficulty with that.

And that was in 1937.

And by the way, at that time, there were 25 over-the-counter medications that you could get without a prescription available in pretty much every drugstore in, uh, in the land.