If you were a head in 1974 who happened to enjoy the smell and taste of smoking marijuana but didn’t want to get high or busted by the fuzz, or you simply wanted to prank the police, you could light up a Zateeva cigarette! From the April 20 (4/20!), 1974 edition of Florida Today:
The pack of Zateeva says it’s “An exclusive smoke that captures the heady flavor and grass-like aroma of Cannabis Sativa. All natural ingredients, non-psychoactive, no tobacco or nicotine…”
“I never heard of it before. If it’s a drug that’s a close likeness of marijuana, it could pose problems,” said Inspector Theo York, commander of the sheriff’s headquarters squad.
“It is a problem for law enforcement officers, in that we have to know or be pretty well sure that the substance we have to make an arrest for contains an illegal drug.”
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