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FORUM AND CENTURY
Jan. 1939 - The Forum Publishing Co. Inc.
“One More Peril For Youth”
–
Editorial Foreword Henry Goddard Leach, Editor:
NEWARK,
N. J. February, 1938. Mrs.
Ethel Sohl confessed to holding up and
killing a bus driver while under the
influence of marijuana. Sentenced
to life
imprisonment."
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U. S. Bureau of Narcotics
In
the United States the authorities are now seizing and destroying annually four
hundred thousand tons of the illicit weed popularly known as marijuana.
For the first time our school children are now
seriously menaced by the temptation of narcotics. Says the Commissioner of the U. S. Bureau of narcotics:
Our children, homeward bound from school, are
being introduced to a new danger today in the form of a drugged cigarette ---
Marijuana. This weed is
jeopardizing American youth, making of those who become marijuana addicts
irresponsible degenerates or criminals. On
street corners there has developed the refrain Do you want to be happy?
Hey, kid! Do you want to be
happy. This voice must be stilled.
In
Ohio, a gang of seven youths under twenty recently perpetrated
thirty-eight stick-ups while operating "high" on marijuana.
In New York City, an addicted inmate of the Tombs confessed that he had
murdered a friend and put his body in a trunk.
In West Virginia, a young man was arrested for the rape of a nine
year-old girl while under the influence of marijuana.
In Texas, a hitchhiker under the influence, of marijuana murdered a
motorist. In Florida, a marijuana
victim butchered with an ax his father, sister, and two brothers.
In Michigan, a marijuana addict manacled a trooper to a mail post and put
a bullet through his head. So grows
the tale and tally of the latest peril for the youth of America.
‘REEFERS'
MARIJUANA-DRUGGED
CIGARETTES are known colloquially under various names, such as reefers and
muggles. They produce idiotic
laughter and a temporary state of lunacy; if they become a habit they may bring
on permanent insanity. Marijuana
causes a feeling of exaltation and magnificent illusions regarding time and
space. Eighty miles an hour may
seem like twenty, or the victim may seem to be soaring
above the clouds. Later come
irresistible impulses to violence. Its
effects are more unpredictable than those of opium.
Fortunately, juries are ignoring the plea of " temporary
insanity" and sending criminal addicts to prison.
In New Orleans it is claimed that one out of four arrests can be
attributed to marijuana smoking.
This
opiate, new to the United States, has been known to the Orient since the dawn of
history. Its illicit use spread
here from Mexico and, with it, the slang name marijuana --- “Mary and
Jane." It is derived from the
leaves and fruit of the plant Cannabis saliva.
For all its impressive Greek name, Cannabis sativa is nothing other than
our common weed hemp, which grows high in almost any climate.
Hashish
is the most popular name for marijuana in the Near East, where hemp has been
cultivated for centuries for the tough fiber made from its harmless stalk as
well as for the narcotic resin and drugs derived from its leaves and flowering
shoots and fruit.
The
insidious elixirs of Cannabis saliva have, since the beginning of the Christian
Era, contributed to keep the once virile races of India, western Asia, Egypt,
and northern Africa in a state of dreamy and innocuous desuetude.
Like the opium-smoking Chinese they have become politically impotent.
Apparently the Arabs have at last shaken off its lure, while the ascetic
Japanese are content to sell narcotic drugs for profit to other peoples and live
at home on rice and fish.
Hashish
is more provocative than opium. It
excites the mind and brings on temporary insanity, thus leading to robbery,
rape, and murder. The
violence of its effects may be judged by the derivation of the English word
assassin. Assassin comes from an
Arabic word meaning "one who has drunk of hashish."
The religious and military Order of the Assassins, founded in Persia in
1090, terrorized the Near East for centuries, destroying its enemies by secret
murder.
Providence
gave us appetites for two purposes: to guide us in satisfying the normal needs
of the human body; to afford us a means of developing character when we resist
overindulgence.
Providence
is fairly generous in making accessible the opportunities for regulation of the
abuse of our appetites --- too generous, it seems to most of us.
Sex and its lures lurk around every corner.
Alcohol can be procured almost as easily as potatoes.
Narcotic poppies bloom with enough profusion across the face of the
planet to provide all mankind with visions of paradise.
Providence
prefers to have us exercise temperance rather than abstinence.
But most mortals are too weak to choose their blessings in moderation.
Instead, we often pray Lead us not into temptation.
And, if the gods do not answer the prayers of cowards, we then call on
governments to remove the enticement. Nature
insists, however, on self-discipline; the failure of the
Eighteenth Amendment has thrown American youth back once more on its individual
resources of temperance.
In
the case of more deadly pleasures, government has been effective in tempering
the temptation. A few years ago the
peddling of morphine and heroin, white powders of the beautiful poppy, seemed to
be undermining the morale of the Forgotten Man. Europe and Asia were smuggling their tantalizing drugs across
American shores. Our federal grand
juries were overwhelmed with cases of dope peddlers brought into our courts.
The men "higher up" were a massing fortunes.
But the League of Nations came to the rescue.
Convention followed convention. One
nation after another passed laws restricting the manufacture and export of the
products of opium. The League did
not abolish war, but it did succeed in curbing to a considerable extent the
illicit use of these dangerous habit-forming drugs.
FEDERAL REGULATION
BY
THE FEDERAL MARIJUANA TAX act of October I, 1937, any person in the United
States who grows or produces hemp for sale or deals in it must be registered and
pay an occupational tax. On each
sale or transfer of the shoots, leaves, fruit, or seeds of hemp that produce
marijuana, as well as the extract itself, he must pay a still heavier tax.
Severe penalties are provided for failure to report.
We
can warn our children against hemp poison but we cannot expect them to help much
in protecting themselves or aiding the Treasury Department or the local police.
The war on this new drug demands the concerted patriotism of all parents. Let us inform the police on all peddlers of the drug.
We should be able to recognize the hemp weed whenever we see it growing
against a wall or in an open field. Let
us telephone the police in such case and insist they find out whether or no the
owner or grower of this plant is operating under license.
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