Tax Stamp
date: label: associated dates
content: 1961 07 01 / 1961 07 01
notes: label: Description
content: In 1937, the U.S. Congress imposed drastic new regulations and taxes on marijuana, which was then legal, in an attempt to restrict its use. To prove payment of the tax, three values of documentary tax stamps were overprinted with the words “Marihuana / Tax Act / of 1937.” This tax stamp was issued in the early 1960s to Gerald Eisner Stone, MD. An inscription reads in part “SPECIAL TAX STAMP / UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE / OPIUM, COCA LEAVES, MARIHUANA, ETC.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Drugs
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald E. Stone, M.D. and Lois Greene Stone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0432.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0432.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0432
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tax Stamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 9.2 cm x 21.5 cm; 3 5/8 in x 8 7/16 in