January 3, 2012
Louis Armstrong, who was arrested November 1930 (along with drummer Vic Berton) outside the Cotton Club, Culver City, CA, for violating a California law outlawing the possession of extracts, tinctures, or other narcotic preparations of hemp, or loco-weed, their preparations and compounds. (via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Jokers, Smokers and Midnight Tokers #3Friends of Milt Hinton #24)

Louis Armstrong, who was arrested November 1930 (along with drummer Vic Berton) outside the Cotton Club, Culver City, CA, for violating a California law outlawing the possession of extracts, tinctures, or other narcotic preparations of hemp, or loco-weed, their preparations and compounds. (via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Jokers, Smokers and Midnight Tokers #3Friends of Milt Hinton #24)

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