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Reefer
Madness Propaganda Quotes:
“In the past we have had
officers of this department shot and killed by marihuana addicts and we have
traced the act of murder directly to the influence of marihuana, with no other
motive. We have found from long
experience and dealing with this type of criminal that marihuana is probably the
most dangerous of all our narcotic drugs.”J.F. Taylor, Chief of
Detectives L.A.P.D -
[Fraternal Order of Police Journal - Jan. 1933]
Marijuana causes far more than mere moral degeneration--it
breaks down the mentality of its slaves. THE KEYNOTE
- Jan/Feb 1941 - Detroit Federation of Musicians Union
HIGH SCHOOL, youngsters who turn to banditry for
thrills, girls who leap from skyscraper windows, striplings who chop their
parents to death . . . .The list of holdups, sex crimes, murders and suicides by
marijuana addicts could be multiplied indefinitely. THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
- June 29, 1938
In some districts, inhabited by Latin Americans, Filipinos,
Spaniards and Negroes, half the violent crimes are attributed to marijuana
craze. Dr. Lee Rice of San Antonio
reports that eighty per cent of all the murders committed by Mexicans are done
while the killers are drugged by marijuana.THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
- June 29, 1938
-- Winner -- Great math of
the year award:
Investigator
found abandoned in fields in Iowa and Minnesota between 12,000 and 15,000 pounds
of harvested hemp -- enough to make thirty billion [Marihuana] cigarettes and to
drug the whole population of the United States.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
- June 29, 1938
[Marihuana’s]
bodily reactions usually include muscular-trembling, increased heartbeat,
accelerated pulse and a ringing in the ears.
Often the user feels hot in the head, becomes dizzy and has sensations of
cold in the hands and feet. Later he
experiences muscular contractions, constrictions in the chest and dilation of
the eye pupils. These effects lead
to either vomiting or stupefaction, followed by restless sleep filled with
bizarre kaleidoscopic visions.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
- June 29, 1938
The
influence of marijuana as a cause of crime would be hard to overestimate.
With the victim experiencing hallucination and violent rages, he is
likely to run-amuck and commit crimes he would not have nerve enough to attempt
if he were in his right mind.
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY
- June 29, 1938
Some of the so-called “jazz hounds” who think that
their talents show off the best when “high [on Marihuana]” should take a
trip to Eloise Hospital and see the wrecked human beings there, gibbering idiots
. . Now they can’t think at
all! THE KEYNOTE
- Jan/Feb 1941 - Detroit Federation of Musicians Union
When asked the question,
“Is marihuana a starter drug?” Drug Czar Harry Anslinger answered:
”-
Congressional record - The Marihuana tax act hearings of 1937
[Marihuana use] - “In many instances the preliminary
stimulation soon gives way to apprehension, and to a terror and feeling of
persecution which not infrequently lead to violence and crime, sexual
aberrations or even suicide.“
The American
Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa Society) Winter 1938/39
“Repeated use of it
[Marihuana] has led to mental weakness, dullness and an insanity either of a
violent sort in which the victim is pursued by terrible sense-illusions, with
insomnia and acute mania, or of an imbecile-lethargic kind, resulting in
incurable dementia. .
. . .Children of addicts are
said to be inferior; in some parts of India, where hashish has long been used to
excess, whole communities are imbecilic and morally degraded.”
The
American Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa Society) Winter
1938/39
“The onset of
physical degeneration caused by continued smoking of hemp appears to be long
delayed. Several years may pass before deterioration becomes obvious.
One hashish addict, admittedly an unusual case, lived for 20 years in
spite of excessive use of the drug. Eventually,
however, he died insane. “
The
American Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa Society) Winter
1938/39
“Authorities Warn
Against Spread of Marijuana Habit -
Insanity, Degeneracy and Violence Follow Use of Weed”
- (Actual
front page headline)- BELOIT
DAILY NEWS (Beloit, Wisconsin) Feb. 10, 1938 pg1.
Chief of Detectives Herbert A. Schultz
“Does not think that the narcotic [Marihuana] can be used here to any
extent. If it were being sold in
wholesale quantities, somebody would be
getting violent,”- BELOIT
DAILY NEWS (Beloit, Wisconsin) Feb. 10, 1938 pg1.
“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.”New
York Times - Sep.16, 1934
“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.” Newsweek
Magazine - Aug. 14, 1937
"Marihuana produces a
wide variety of symptoms in the user, including hilarity, swooning, and sexual
excitement ... it often makes the smoker vicious, with a desire to fight and
kill."Scientific
American - March 1936:
“Marihuana is “a
more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine.”
Authority for this statement is United States Commissioner of Narcotics
H. J. Anslinger. . . . the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of
murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown.”Scientific American - May
1938
"[Marijuana] is highly
intoxicating and constitutes an ever recurring problem where there are Mexicans
or Spanish-Americans of the lower classes."New York Times-
Dec. 3, 1933 - Pg. 6, Sec. 4.
Mrs. Hamilton Wright, (representative of the Federal Bureau
of Narcotics) 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.”New York Times - May
4, 1937
"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white
people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman
twice." Hearst newspapers
nationwide, 1935
"Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days
-- Hashish goads users to bloodlust." Hearst newpapers
nationwide circa 1936
"Marihuana leads to pacifism
and communist brainwashing" Federal Bureau of
Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948
"Permanent brain damage is
one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana." Ronald Reagan 1974
"Marijuana leads to
homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS." White House Drug Czar
Carlton Turner 1986
"Marijuana is ten times more
dangerous than twenty years ago.
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton 1992
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