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The
Prairie Farmer - July
30, 1938 - pp2
Marijuana Must Go!
- By Mrs. Payne Mercer
Legion, Boy Scouts, Prairie Farmer Protective
Union Start Campaign of Eradication
Weed Grows Wild---Tragic Results
Deadly as a
copperhead snake is the drug-weed marijuana, which has been found growing wild
in many sections of Indiana and Illinois. Read
Mrs. Payne Mercer's story", printed here.
Understand why the American Legion of Indiana and the Boy Scouts of
America, with Prairie Farmer-WLS and many church groups of Indiana have launched
a campaign of completely eradicate this weed.
Is it growing on your farm?
A young man in Fayette county, Indiana, has gone insane
from the use of marijuana or "dope" cigarettes. He is now a crazed, wild boy gazing out of the windows of Madison
Insane Hospital, his mind destroyed.
But for the coaxing of a vicious marijuana peddler, this boy would be
working in the sunshine and the green fields of the home farm.
His life is broken, and he is only one of thousands being ruined in
Indiana, Illinois and the Middle West by heartless, money-grabbing
"dope" rings.
Another boy of a good family in the same county is serving
a term in the state penal farm for a crime he committed while crazed from
smoking this death weed. "He
knew little of what he had done when he came out of his daze," said Night
Captain William Harris of the Connersville police.
"When we arrested him, he was so excited we could hardly manage him,
and crying, hysterical and violent."
Young people in Fayette county, and throughout Indiana,
Illinois and Ohio have been approached many times in the last six months to join
"reefer" parties. Peddlers
tell them of wonderful effects and fun of smoking this deadly weed.
Chief of Police Joseph M. Stevens is fighting the
propaganda at Connersville with his entire staff.
Several unsigned letters gave him facts and stories of local smoking
parties there. Peddlers are afraid
to move right now, and several patches of their marijuana plants have been
destroyed.
June 30, a Prairie Farmer subscriber told Prairie Farmer
fieldmen he had found marijuana growing on his farm. he saw a woman gathering armloads of a weed, and went to see
what she was getting. but she was
too quick for him and got away. Such
a woman is known to local authorities. A
search of his farm by officers, Prairie Farmer fieldmen and County Agent D.S.
Bishopp revealed a patch probably planted years ago near a creek bed.
Following the stream, nature had spread this hardy weed, and through the
pasture land were thousands of plants from two to 12 feet high.
The wild crop was estimated at $10,000 value.
Once planted marijuana grows wild on farm lands without knowledge or
consent of farmers, ready for picking by peddlers.
"It is dangerous to stock, too," said this
farmer. "I know now why my
cows just went crazy sometimes and acted so wild we could hardly milk
them."
Local Scout Master Francis Howard found another wild patch
of marijuana eight by 10 feet. It
was near a gravel pit on the Mount Farm near Connersville, and carefully
surrounded by horse weed. Nearby
was a shelter made of bedsprings, tin roofing, fence and boards where users
might smoke the drug.
"That crop is going up in smoke all right, but not
cigarette smoke," shouted Howard. Chief
Stevens poured on gasoline. The
fire roared as he declared, "No insane, criminal boys will come from that
patch."
"Peddlers are busy in every community and small town
selling marijuana cigarettes," declared authorities of the Indiana narcotic
bureau. "One great danger is
selling cigarettes to be handed to girls without their knowing what they
contain, Marijuana has a strong effect upon the sex sensations.
All restraints vanish. It is
easy to get many boys to try a new kind of cigarette just once, for a real
"kick." Then the habit
soon is formed."
[ picture - Chief
of Police Joseph M. Stevens of Connersville, Ind., and Boy Scout Leader Francis
Howard examine marijuana weeds found near Connersville.
This weed grows wild in many other sections. ]
Marijuana cigarettes are sold at many barbeque stands,
hamburger joints, dance halls, garages, and by direct peddlers to young people.
They get a private word with them after school, in town on Saturday
nights. Smoking parties are planned
with a leader of the crowd sold first. It
is made out to be an adventure. Many
restaurant owners have been induced by peddlers to provide smoking rooms for
such parties, little realizing what wildness, crime, murder, immorality and
horror result.
But let a witness of such a party tell our readers.
"Once was enough for me," he said confidentially, "Some of
our crowd got the habit. At first
we went into spells of laughing. Anything
seemed grand, so they barked like dogs, crawled, climbed the piano, or much
wilder things. We seemed light, and
felt like floating to the moon. some
stood on chairs and gave brilliant lectures.
One girl danced constantly. Another
played the piano like a "swing artist," yet she could hardly play at
all before. It speeded everybody up
to high gear, but they didn't know it. My
girl and I only took a few puffs and were horrified."
The floating sensation accounts for many suicides of young
people who jump out of windows. A
marijuana smoker was hanged in Baltimore for criminal assault on a 10-year-old
girl last year. A young A young man
in Florida killed his parents, two brothers and sister with an ax and only
remembered the terrible crime afterward."
"The danger of marijuana," said one high
official, "is the in the first stages it makes people happy and fascinates
them. They do not believe anything
more serious will result. Then
suddenly they enter the second stage and become criminally violent. The third stage is complete insanity. Marijuana is known as the old "hashish" of India.
I would just as soon light dynamite in my mouth.
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