Pro-Marijuana Posters 1971-1973: A photo essay

by Liz Publika

Title: Smoke-in. Let's twist again like we did last summer! Washington, D.C., July 4, 1971

By: Unknown

Published: 1971

Summary: Poster showing young man in rags smoking marijuana and holding up burning U.S. flag, with Washington Monument in background.

Title: 1st Annual Marijuana Harvest Festival, Sept. 25,1971

By: Unknown

Published: 1971

Summary: Wisconsin Youth International Party

Title: Vote YES on 19

By: Joe Roberts

Published: 1972

Summary: California Marijuana Initiative

Title: Decriminalize Marijuana: Yes on Proposition19

By: Unknown

Published: 1972

Summary: California Marijuana Initiative

Title: Vote YES on 19

By: Unknown

Published: 1972

Summary: On November 7th, 1972, decriminalize marijuana, Berkeley

Title: Free Pot, Free Yourself: Weed Week January 21 –27, 1974.

By: Unknown

Published: 1973

Summary: California Marijuana Initiative. Poster showing young woman, holding smoking pipe, arm resting on mushroom.

Note* All images of Pro-Marijuana Posters and their descriptions are curtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress