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Reefer Madness Newspaper Articles #3
Multiple Reefer Madness Newspaper articles circa
1930's #1
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Correspondence about the
legal status of hemp 1930 - 1938
- Letter
from Harry Anslinger - September 29, 1936
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - September 30, 1936
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - October 6, 1936
- Letter
from Harry Anslinger - November 2, 1936
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - November 3, 1936
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - November 5, 1936
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - November 6, 1936
- Report
of the Marihuana Investigation - Summer, 1937
- Letter
from H. W. Bellrose, October 12, 1937
- Letter
from H. W. Bellrose - October 12, 1937
- Letter
from H. W. Bellrose - October 14, 1937
- Letter
from Brien McMahon - October 26, 1937
- Letter
from Will S. Wood - November 6, 1937
- Letter
from Frank Ridgway - January 21, 1938
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - March 5, 1938
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - March 5, 1938
- Letter
from Elizabeth Bass - March 10, 1938
- Report
of Survey Commercialized Hemp Crop (1934-35 Crop) in the State of Minnesota,
by H.T. Nugent, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Field Supervisor,
October 22, 1938
USE OF
MARIJUANA SPREADING IN WEST
Poisonous Weed Is Being Sold Quite Freely in Pool
Halls and beer Gardens
CHILDREN SAID TO BUY IT
Narcotic Bureau Officials Say Law Gives No
Authority to Stop Traffic
New York Times
September 16, 1934 (pg. 6 - Sec. 4)
DENVER, Sept. 13. -- Although as appalling in its
effects on the human mind and body as narcotics, the consumption of marijuana
appears to be proceeding, virtually unchecked in Colorado and other Western
States with a large Spanish-American population. The drug is particularly
popular with Latin Americans and its use is rapidly spreading to include all
classes.
The poisonous weed which maddens the senses and
emaciates the body of the user, is being sold more or less openly in pool halls
and beer gardens throughout the West and Southwest and, according to some
authorities, it is being peddled to school children. The Federal Government is
powerless to stop the traffic, officials of the Narcotic Bureau say, because
marijuana was left out of the Harrison Act under which the bureau gets its
authority to stop the traffic in opium and its derivatives.
The seriousness of the problem, growing out of
laxity in enforcing State laws barring the drug, is indicated by the fact that
it is the same weed from which the Egyptian hashish is made. The plant grows
wild in many parts of the United States, but when cultivated it is usually
concealed in a stand of some other high-growing crop such as sugar beets,
alfalfa or corn. After it grows to a height of three or four feet it blossoms
and is cut and dried. The leaves and blossoms are then packed in ordinary
pocket-size tobacco tins which retail at $3 to $5 each and contain enough
"hay" to make thirty or forty cigarettes, one of which is enough to
intoxicate the smoker. The sensations of the addict are wholly different from
those of the user of narcotics. Users of marijuana become stimulated as they
inhale the drug and are likely to do anything. Most crimes of violence in this
section, especially in country districts, are laid to users of the drug.
However, it is said that the marijuana habit can be more easily broken than that
of narcotics.
The weed's toxic qualities are not confined to
men, but have equally deleterious effects on animals. Kin to the loco weed,
marijuana when mixed with hay causes death to the horses that eat it.
JANESVILLE
DAILY GAZZETTE - (Janesville Wisconsin)
[ ]- Feb 9, 1938 Pg 1 -
Local “Reliefer” Held for Selling
Marihuana - Police Call U.S. Agents
Mexican-Born Alien Admits Narcotic Work - Has
Been making, Selling Loco Weed Cigarets for Year, Says confession.
[Picture of a dirty looking
Mexican smoking a cigarette ]
Caption: Thomas Gomez 43, of 963 South Jackson
street, is shown as he appeared in the office of Chief of Police William H.
Ford Tuesday night when confessing he manufactured and sold marihuana or
“loco weed” cigarets in Janesville. Gomez, a Mexican is on relief. He
pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge but federal charges also may
brought against him under the narcotics act.
The preparation and sale in Janesville of the
dread narcotic marihuana in tobacco and cigarets was confessed at the police
station here last nigh by Thomas Gomez 43, Mexican-born alien and a recipient of
county relief.
Gomez, who the past few days has been employed
with other relief workers washing walls at the city hall, was arrested by the
police on a downtown street Tuesday afternoon. His confessions, obtained piece
by piece under questioning during the afternoon and night by Chief of Police
William Ford, other officers, and Acting Dist. Atty., Cleland Fisher, revealed
his activities in preparing and selling the drug, which is properly and
popularly called loco weed, have covered the last year at least.
Arraigned in municipal court Wednesday morning on
a state charge of possessing preparations for smoking loco weed, Gomez pleaded
guilty but pronouncement of sentence was deferred to Feb. 16 by Judge Ernest P.
Agnew. Cleland Fisher, acting district attorney, said he had notified the
Chicago office of the federal narcotics division of Gomez’ activities and that
a federal agent would be sent here. Conviction on the state charge as a first
offender would make Gomez liable to a fine of $200 or three months in jail, or
both.
Gomez led officers to his home at 963 South
Jackson street, where he kept a supply of marihuana. Police are holding as
evidence 10 marihuana cigarets Gomez confessed making himself, four factory-made
cigarets, and two tins of the ground raw weed in bulk. Police expressed the
belief that more may be obtained on further search of his home.
Chief Ford said he may ask prosecution of Gomez
by federal authorities under the federal marihuana act of 1937, although state
laws also cover the offense. Inasmuch as Gomez is admittedly an alien and on
relief, his deportation to Mexico may be sought.
Has 10 Customers
Arrest of Gomez came on the very afternoon that
one local user of the marihuana weed was taken to the state hospital at Mendota
for observation. Henry Ahrbecker, Jr., 23 Janesville, arrested Saturday night
told police he has been smoking marihuana for about a (continued on Page 3, Col.
1) year, and a supply of mixed tobacco and the narcotic was taken from him.
Gomez’ signed confession reads as follows:
“I Thomas, Gomez, an alien, not an American
citizen, live on the county, and the county pays my rent at 963 South Jackson
street. I gathered marijuana (federal officials spell it marihuana) or loco weed
and prepared it for the purpose of selling it.
I sold these cigarets for 15 cents apiece, most
always two or three to a customer. I have been selling these marijuana cigarets
for about a year to make a little extra money.
I have about 10 different parties to whom I
sell these cigarets. I give this information of my own free will.”
Gomez’ memory seemed remarkably vague when he
was questioned about the names and descriptions of the customers. he said he
understands he has some competition in the sale of the narcotic but his memory
was as conveniently vague when he was asked who they were.
Operates in Taverns
Gomez said he has been “hanging around
taverns” to sell his doped cigarets, and named specifically the Uptown tavern,
where he said he made sales a year ago, and the West End tavern, where he said
he made sales last New Year’s eve. His method of salesmanship is to loiter
about the tavern until someone approaches him, asking for cigarets. Then he
beckons to them to enter the toilet room, and there the sale is completed, he
said.
The marihuana or loco weed which is similar to
wild hemp and grows to a height of four or five feet with many leaves, is found
growing wild along the railroad tracks near Janesville, Gomez said. He picks it
up, getting a “couple of handfuls” at a time, takes it home and refines it.
There he takes the seeds off, screens it, and rolls it into cigarets. The weed
is ripe for this use only in the fall of the year, he said.
Gomez said he learned to prepare marihuana from
“Chicago fellows”. He kept his supply of the weed and the prepared cigarets
at his home, taking it out only two or three cigarets at a time in regular
cigaret packages. He sells only at night, he said.
Admits Using It Himself
Gomez at first denied he ever smoked the weed
himself, but later admitted he had used it. “One cigaret gives a good Jag”
he said, and admitted no one could smoke two or three without going wild. He
explained his possession of the factory-made marihuana cigarets by saying “a
kid found em at the Eastern avenue dump” and gave them to him.
Police told Gomez they thought he was lying.
Gomez was fingerprinted at the police station
Tuesday and a report on his record, if any, is awaited from the bureau of
identification at Washington, D.C. He has no local police record.
Gomez said he was born in Mexico and came to this
country in 1916. “I just walked over the international bridge and never went
back:, he said.
He said he worked in Pennsylvania, in Ohio coal
mines, in Detroit, Gary, Ind., South Chicago, Fond du Lac, and Waukesha before
coming to Janesville in 1926. His employment has always been that of a laborer,
in coal mines, foundries, sugar beet fields, and on railroad track crews. He is
not married.
Not Widespread Here
Police said that Gomez’ story, as much of it as
he has told, would indicated that the sale and use of marihuana is not very
widespread in Janesville, but that they want to make a complete investigation of
the matter. The use of marihuana in Janesville has been rumored and reported
from time to time, but local police have never been able to strike a blow at the
evil before.
Gomez said the “Chicago fellows” he knows
smoke the cigarets and some of them gather the weed about Janesville and take it
back to to Chicago to sell it. There they receive 25 cents a cigaret for it. He
decided to cut prices locally, however, and charged 15, he said.
Has Disastrous Effects
The serious effects of the drug marihuana are
explained in the Feb. 1 issue of the Federal Bureau of Investigation law
enforcement bulletin, which Janesville police have on hand.
H.J. Anslinger., U.S. commissioner of narcotics,
has the following to say:
“The drug is adhering to its old world
traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization and mental
breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a
dangerous drug, and bureau records prove that its use is associated with
insanity and crime. Therefore, from the standpoint of police work, it is a more
dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine.
Here is a drug which according to Dr. Moreau,
who is the outstanding authority on its effects causes seven phenomena and
three illusions:
Feeling of unaccountable hilarity.
Excitation and disassociation of
ideas; the weakening of power to direct thoughts.
Errors in time and space.
Intensification of auditory
sensibilities causing profound dejection or mad gayety
Fixed ideas; delirious conviction.
This is a type of intellectual injury so frequent in mental alienation. The
user imagines the most unbelievable things, giving way to monstrous
extravagances.
Emotional disturbance during which
the user is powerless to direct his thoughts, lose the power to resist
emotion and may commit violence which knows no bounds when disorders of the
intellect have reached a point of incoherence. During this dangerous
phenomenon evil instincts are brought to the surface and cause a fury to
rage within the user.
Irresistible impulses which may
result in suicide. The illusions are those of sight, hearing and sense. The
mind loses all idea of space and extent, and tends to exaggeration in all
things; the slightest impulse or suggestion carries it away.
Narcotic effects are good or bad. Marihuana
effects run in one direction only, and that is bad. Marihuana weakens the will.
Federal Offense Since Oct. 1
All of the 48 states have legislation controlling
marihuana. Since Oct. 1 1937, when the marihuana tax act of 1937 came into
effect the federal government, in cooperation with local and state enforcement
officers, has arrested a number of traffickers and seized large quantities of
the drug.
Judge J. Foster Symes, Denver Colo., sentenced
Sam Caldwell four year in the penitentiary on Oct. 8, 1937, for violation of the
marihuana act. This was the first conviction in the United States under the new
federal marihuana legislation. In sentencing Caldwell the judge said:
“I consider marihuana the worst of all
narcotics--far worse than the use of morphine or cocaine. Under its influence
men become beasts…Marihuana destroys life itself. I have no sympathy with
those who sell this weed.”
JANESVILLE
DAILY GAZZETTE - (Janesville Wisconsin)
[ ]- Feb 10, 1938 Pg 6 - Editorial:
Marihuana
Arrest of a man in Janesville for manufacturing
and selling marihuana in tobacco and cigarets now confessed by the person
arrested, may be the first step in cleaning the city of this deadly and deathly
menace. In the old stories of Capt. Mayne Reid and the Mexican border raids and
pioneer settlements, frequent mention was made of the loco weed. When cattle ate
it they went crazy. This is the marihuana of the present day, the use of which
has become disturbing to the social life of the United States. Why men and women
should want to put themselves into a state of half-insanity is unanswerable.
Any person dealing in this narcotic should be
given the limit of the law and it is to be hoped that the United States agents
of the narcotic division of the department of justice will start in seriously to
make a clean-up of Janesville and vicinity. A man who sells or prepares this
narcotic should be given no mercy. It is not our purpose nor has it been our
policy to pre-judge persons arrested for crimes, but there is no punishment
sufficient for a man who will sell this loco weed to balance the destruction of
human beings which its use brings about.
It is known that most of the business of selling
narcotics in the United States is in the hands of aliens. We have two remedies.
One is to give them long terms in prison and feed them well, probably better
than they were before they came to the United States, or deport them. Our sob
sister phalanx objects to deportation. We have about 12 million aliens in the
United States, many of whom are on relief and most of whom should be sent back
where they came from. An effort has been made for some time to deport some of
the worst of our alien agitators, but has been stopped by the secretary of
labor, who reminds us of that old sentence of John J. Ingalls: “He loves every
country but his own.”
JANESVILLE
DAILY GAZZETTE - (Janesville Wisconsin)
[ ]- Feb 18, 1938 Pg 4
Marijuana Replaces Texas Desperado as Enemy
No. 1
New York--It isn’t the quick-trigger desperado
nor the cattle rustler, nor the train robber which annoys Texas justice today,
Mrs. Frances Edmondson, mother of two children and the only bonafide woman
ranger in Texas, said as she made the rounds of New York, her pink and white
countenance glowing behind a chic net veil.
“No, it’s the dirty old weed, the
marijuana,” she stormed. “We’ve found those loco weed cigarets being
smoked by kids in the junior high schools. They buy the reefers three for a
quarter. I’ve organized an army of women vigilantes to stamp that menace clear
out of the state.”
In addition to being a state ranger she is a
deputy sheriff of Bexar county, which includes San Antonio.
Although she was adorned with two badges, she
left her .45 revolver at home. The old six-shooter is no longer the weapon on
the range, she explained. She isn’t a bad shot either, she continued, for out
in Texas a person has to be able to shoot a devil’s darning needle on the wing
before he is considered good.
JANESVILLE
DAILY GAZZETTE - (Janesville Wisconsin)
[ ]- Feb 10, 1938 Pg 1
Marihuana Is Blamed for Bus Murder
Newark, N.J. -(AP)- The 20-year-old policeman’s
daughter accused of killing a bus driver in a $2.10 holdup today told the jury
trying her and a girl companion for murder that Marihuana cigarettes which made
“wrong things seem right” stared her on her brief career of crime.
The “smokes,” Mrs. Ethel Strouse Sohl
testified, “made me forget all about the pain in my head” which she said she
had suffered since an automobile accident four years ago. She was introduced to
the narcotic, she added, by her young husband, now a reformatory inmate.
Occasionally, her co-defendant Genevieve Owens,
18 glanced at her. When Ethel pointed out her husband, William, brought here for
the trial both she and Sohl burst into tears.
The girls are charged with killing William
Barhorst, 34 in his bus during a hold-up at Belleville Dec. 21
From the rear of the room, Barhorst’s widow, in
mourning, eyed her and wept.
Mrs. Sohl was called after Prosecutor William A.
Wachenfeld temporarily succeeded in keeping from the stand Dr. James A. Munch of
Temple university, an expert on the effect of Marihuana, a narcotic. Judge
Daniel J. Brennan, ruled his testimony would b premature.
JANESVILLE
DAILY GAZZETTE - (Janesville Wisconsin)
[ ]- Feb 16, 1938 Pg 1
Gomez jailed for Marihuana Activity Here
The maximum penalty possible under the state law
was imposed Wednesday morning when Thomas Gomez, 43, of 963 South Jackson
street, was sentenced by Municipal Judge Ernest P. Agnew here for possessing
preparations for smoking marihuana.
Gomez was ordered to pay a fine of $200 and costs
or serve six months in the county jail, and in addition to serve three months in
the county jail. Judge Agnew said sentence will be suspended if federal
authorities want to prosecute Gomez on narcotics charges, or if they want to
deport him to Mexico. Gomez is an alien and a relief charge.
“Your have pleased guilty to a very serious
offense and I am imposing the maximum penalty.” Judge Agnew said. “The
effects of marihuana are well known.”
Deportation Is Suggested.
Judge Agnew suggested that proper federal
officials be contacted to attempt to deport Gomez.
Federal officials are much interested in the
Gomez case and have already paid one visit to the city to learn facts of his
arrest and activities, Dis. Atty. John Matheson, who appeared in Court for the
state declared. However there seems to be some question of the ability of the
federal government to prosecute Gomez until June of this year when an
appropriation is available to the department charged with this duty.
Arrested Twice Previously.
Gomez declared in court that he did not have over
10 marihuana cigaret customers in the city. Chief of Police William H. Ford,
however, told the court that Gomez had been of little help in giving information
on the marihuana traffic in the city.
Police said Gomez has a record of having been
arrested in Fond du Lac on a charge of assault and battery, and in Janesville in
1936 for drunkenness.
 
- - - - - - - Dope Ring Specialized in Mexican Marijuana Special
Correspondence The New York Times - December 3, 1933 - Pg. 6, Sec. 4. LONGMONT,
Col., Nov. 30 -- With the arrest here of five Mexicans, a dope ring specializing
in the intoxicating weed, marijuana, is believed to have been broken up. About
$7,275 worth of the weed, which is called "hay" in the vernacular, was
seized. Marijuana sells for about $85 a pound or 5 cents for a single cigarette.
It is highly intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there
are Mexicans or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes. It is usually grown in
the midst of other crops such as alfalfa and is thus hard to distinguish. * -
- - - - - - * * CAMPAIGN BATTLES MARIHUANA WEED * Mrs. William Dick Sporborg
to Seek Aid of State Head of Schools in Drive * DRUG EDUCATION MAPPED Program of
Crime Prevention Adopts Anti-Narcotic Work as Pivotal Point * New York Times -
January 3, 1937 -Pg. 6D * * * Cooperation of the Commissioner of Education of
the State of New York will be asked by Mrs. William Dick Sporborg in
inaugurating a campaign of education among the pupils of junior and senior high
schools covering the devastating effects of the use of the marihuana weed. * *
In her duel capacity as chairman of the department of crime prevention of the
New York State Federation of Women's Clubs and chairman of legislation for the
General Federation, Mrs. Sproborg has assumed responsibility for a concerted
drive against the narcotic. This will be a pivotal point in the program for
crime prevention locally but its ramifications, it is hoped, will reach into
every State. * * Mrs. Sporborg has just returned from a conference with Henry J.
Anslinger, Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The Federal bureau
has admitted that its hands are tied by the fact that the marihuana weed is
indigenous to so many States that its distribution is an intrastate problem.
Hope for its ultimate control lies, in the opinion of the government's officers,
in adoption by States of the Uniform Narcotic Act. * * More Aid to Be Sought * *
In the work of education, assistance of the State Congress of Parents and
Teachers will be sought. Throughout the country, national educational
organizations will be asked to assist in bringing home to young people not
already acquainted with marihuana the reasons for its general designation as
"the killer drug." In cigarettes, it is most commonly sold to school
boys and girls, according to Mrs. Sporborg. The weed derives its name from the
Mexican equivalent of the names of Mary and John, a fact which those who are
engaged in the attack on it say suggests its universal appeal to boys and girls.
"Primarily we want to protect our young people from a danger which is not
apparent to them," says Mrs. Sporborg, "but if the government is going
to stop the traffic in marihuana, it will have to have the cooperation of
Statewide organizations. * * Conference to Be Called: * * "Recently a boat
came into New York Harbor from Southern waters with practically the entire crew
under the influence of this drug. This endangers the lives of travelers and we
are aghast, but the cigarettes sold in the vicinity of our high schools in an
age when smoking is so generally indulged in by girls as well as boys, makes
this our immediate concern. After our general federation meeting in Washington
this month it may seem advisable to call a conference here in New York to
discuss the suppression of the drug." * * The General Federation of Women's
Clubs has made measures against the smuggling of narcotics a part of its
interest for many years and a sustained drive in every State for adoption of the
Uniform Narcotic Act will probably grow out of the board meeting to be held in
the near future. * * Evidence to show that the sale of marihuana cigarettes is
definitely tied up with juvenile delinquency has been accumulated by Mrs.
Sporborg to fortify her department of crime prevention, which will make an
attack on the vending of these cigarettes in the vicinity of high schools as
part of its program.
* * - - - - - - - WAR ON MARIHUANA URGED ON PARENTS Federal Expert Calls on
P.T.A. Congress to Act Against Newest Narcotic 2,000 ATTEND SESSIONS Dr.
Studebaker at Richmond Meeting Says Child Should Be Taught to Think New York
Times - May 4, 1937 - Pg. 26L RICHMOND, Va., May 3. -- Relentless warfare on
marihuana, which was termed the latest narcotic menace to youth, was urgently
recommended to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers here today by Mrs.
Hamilton Wright, special representative of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The
congress opened its convention this morning with 2,000 members present.
Addressing a group on the use of alcohol and narcotics, one of a series of
afternoon conferences on a variety of problems to be held throughout most of the
week, Mrs. Wright characterized marihuana as the "most pernicious" of
drugs. She said it produced in smokers of the weed a temporary sense of complete
irresponsibility which led to sex crimes and other "horrible" acts of
violence. Comparatively few persons are familiar with it, she explained, because
it was introduced into the country ten years ago as a cigarette by Mexican
peddlers, who have since reaped a financial harvest on its sale in the larger
centers. But in that short time, she added, every State save South Carolina,
Kentucky and Tennessee had passed laws against it. ...several less-relevant
paragraphs omitted.
- - - - - - - - - DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH (Dixon Illinois) - Feb 10, 1938 pg5.
Marihuana - Girl Accused of Death of Bus Driver Blames Weed for Crime New York,
N.Y., Feb. 10 - (AP) The 20 year-old policeman's daughter accused of killing a
bus driver in a $2.10 holdup told the jury trying her and a girl companion for
murder today that marihuana cigarettes which made "wrong things seem
right" started her on her brief career of crime. The "smokes"
Mrs. Ethel Strouse Sohl testified, "made me forget all about the pain in my
head" which she said she had suffered since an automobile accident four
years ago. She was introduced to the narcotic. She added by her young husband,
now a reformatory inmate. Occasionally, her co-defendant Genevieve Owens, 18,
glanced at her. The girls are charged with killing William Barhorst, 34, in his
bus during a hold-up at Belleville December 21. Her blonde, boyish-bobbed hair
freshly finger-waved, Mrs. Sohl seemed scarcely more than a child as she sat
quietly in the witness chair and answered questions of her counsel, Gerald
McLaughlin, in a voice barely audible to spectators. From the rear of the room,
Barhorst's widow, in mourning, eyed her and wept. - - - -- --
- - DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH (Dixon Illinois) - Feb 12, 1938 pg6.
TOXICOLOGIST IS BARRED FROM MARIHUANA CASE Newark, N. J., Feb. 12 - (AP)
Upholding the objection of Prosecutor William Wachenfeld, Common Pleas Judge
Daniel J. Brennan today barred a toxicologist from testifying at the trial of
Mrs. Ethel Sohl, 20, and Genevieve Owens, 18 for murder in the slaying of
William Barhorst. Counsel for the defense sought to have the expert testify on
the effects of marihuana on dogs. Counsel for Mrs. Sohl has based an insanity
plea on her smoking of marihuana cigarettes which she testified made "wrong
seem right". Dr. James C. Munch of Temple University, said he had not
observed the effects of prolonged use of narcotic on human beings. The court
stopped him from describing results of experiments on dogs, whose nervous
systems behave like those of humans. Defense of Miss Owens was expected to
follow the experts testimony. Her counsel Reginald C.C. Parnell, said she would
be her own first witness. Mrs. Sohl testified that when she shot and robbed
William Barhorst, 34, in a bus last December 21, she was under the influence of
marihuana and unable to distinguish "right from wrong".
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