Teapads were all the rage during Prohibition. Cannabis was legal when alcohol was not, so cannabis clubs sprang up all over the country in urban areas, offering live jazz and a comfortable place to get high. (Check out Teapad Songs Volume 1 by Gene Krupa.) In 1937, four years after Prohibition ended, the Marijuana Tax Act made cannabis illegal, putting an end to all that comfortable fun.

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