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News Week August 14, 1937 --
SCIENCE (section)
MARIHUANA:
New Federal Tax Hits
Dealings in Potent Weed
Cannabis sativa, scraggly tramp of the vegetable world,
grows with equal ease alongside Chinese railroad tracks, in Indianapolis’
vacant lots, and on Buenos Aires ash dumps.
Birdseed manufacturers harvest the mature plant thresh out the seeds, and
use them to restore molting pigeons to health. The plant’s fiber is twisted into rope and woven into cheap
cloth.
It was neither of these legitimate uses that impelled
Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina to introduce a bill imposing
a transaction tax on commerce in the weed; he was interested in Cannabis sativa
because it is a dangerous and devastating narcotic -- known to the Orient as
hashish, to the Occident as marihuana.
Through Turkish water pipes Indians and other Orientals for
centuries have inhaled the acrid, tarry smoke of hashish.
About a decade ago Negro musicians in New Orleans began drying and
crushing the plant’s leaves and rolling them into cigarettes.
Known variously as bennys, reefers, mary Warners, and muggles, these
cigarettes spread over the United States; shoestring peddlers market them for a
dime apiece. Recently, Negro
bandmen have introduced them to London’s smart Mayfair.
Nearly every State has enacted legislation curbing
production, and enforcement agents have discovered cultivated plots growing in
Maryland, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and even in the San Quentin prison lot.
But curbing the traffic without Federal aid has proved all but
impossible. Since few policemen
know enough botany to recognize the wee, arrests for cultivation and sale are
made almost entirely by narcotics squads of big-city police forces.
Doughton’s measure -- which became law last week when President
Roosevelt signed it -- imposes a tax on all transactions; since no peddler would
be foolish enough to pay such a tax, he is instantly liable to a $2,000 fine or
a five-year jail term, or both.
Inhaling the smoke-- which is held in the lungs as long as
possible -- impels some users to lassitude, others to violence.
Generally, however, subjective reactions stick to one well-defined track:
Half an hour after smoking a reefer, the subject becomes
jovial, carefree, and capable of rare feats of strength, Hallucinations follow;
space expands and time slows down; a minute seems like a day and a room looks
like a place viewed from the large end of a pair of binoculars.
This phase is valuable to hot-band players -- time distortion slows down
everything and gives opportunity to crowd in a dozen cornet notes where
previously there was only time for one. The
third stage of intoxication is the dangerous one.
The weed acts as a powerful aphrodisiac and renders users capable of
various acts of violence; a California man decapitated his best friend while
under the violent spell of the smoke, and a Florida youngster put the ax to his
mother and father.
No one can guess how widespread use of the narcotic is.
Sensational press stories about its use in grade and high schools
generally prove unfounded. New Your, the nation’s biggest consumer, jailed 42 users
and sellers last year and has collared 37 so far this year.
Main concern of narcotics squads, however, are the marihuana rings,
wholesalers to agents.
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