various statements about pot

I got all this from a book called Cannabis by Martin Booth. I don't know if many of you have read it but it is EXTREMELY interesting, some of it goes on a little long but it is no doubt a good read. I just wanted to show you guys some of the quotes and stuff from the book. (the quotes are in italics, the rest is me blabbing)

You know the song "La Cucharacha"? That actually comes from a song made by Pancho Villa's troops, known as "cockroaches":

The cockroach, the cockroach,
Now he cannot walk,
because he don't, because he don't,
Have marijuana to smoke.

The cockroaches apparently also may have led to calling roaches roaches (i'm pretty sure that it was only around that time that smoking was becoming big, as opposed to eating hasheesh).

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A report in the 6 July 1927 New York Times states:

Mexican Family Go Insane - A widow and her four children have been driven insane by eating the marihuana plant, according to doctors, who say that there is no hope of saving the children's lives and that the mother will be insane for the rest of her life. The tragedy occurred while the body of the father, who had been killed, was still in a hospital. The mother was gathering money to but other food for the children, whose ages range from 3 to 15, so they gathered some herbs and vegetables growing in the yard for their dinner. Two hours after the mother and children had eaten the plants, they were stricken. Neighbours, hearing outbursts of crazed laughter, rushed to the house to find the entire family insane. Examination revealed that the narcotic marihuana was growing among the garden vegetables.

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I dunno if anyone knows Emily Murphy (we studied her a bit in school) - she was a lady in Canada in the 1910s and 20s that fought for women's rights and also wrote numerous propagandic 'articles' that she just made up for Maclean's magazine on marijuana (which was barely present in Canada at the time anyways) - she was mostly just a racist (she spoke of other races trying to take over whites, and about white superiority and all that bull):

[she wrote of]...of an addict who died this year in British Columbia [who] told how he was frequently jeered at as a 'white man accounted for'. This man belonged to a prominent family... and used to relate how the Chinese pedlars taunted him with their superiorioty at being able to sell the dope without using it, and by telling him how the yellow race would rule the world... They would strike at the white race through 'dope' and when the times was ripe would command the world. Some of the Negroes coming into Canada - and they are no fiddle-faddle fellows either - have similar ideas, and one of their greatest writers has boasted how ultimately they will control the white men.

Another 'scientific article' by Murphy:

Persons using marijuana smoke the dried leaves of the plant, which has the effect of driving them completely insane. The addict loses all sense of moral responsibility. Addicts to this drug, while under its influence, are immune to pain, become raving maniacs, and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons.

Ridiculous, eh?

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Lots of you have prolly heard of "Mezz" Mezzrow, a white jazz musician from the jazz era who was into the black scene and smoked dope. This is an account of a black guy telling him how to smoke the 'muggles' (a name for pot in that time... strangely enough, also is J.K. Rowling's name for people in Harry Potter... coincedence? i think not):

"You got to hold that muggles so that it barely touches your lips, see, then draw in air around it. Say 'tfff', 'tfff', only breate in when you say it. Then don't blow it out right away, you got to give the stuff a chance."

Here's an account that Mezzrow gives of feeling high - it's a great description:

It's a funny thing about marihuana - when you first begin smoking it you see things in a wonderful soothing, easygoing new light. All of a sudden the world is stripped of its dirty gray shrouds and becomes one big bellyful of giggles, a spherical laugh, bathed in brilliant, sparkling colours that hit you like a heat wave. Nothing leaves you cold any more; there's a humorous tickle and great meaning in the least little thing, the twitch of somebody's little finger or the click of a beer glass. All your pores open like funnels, your nerve-ends stretch their mouths wide, hungry and thirsty for new sights and sound and sensations; and every sensation, when it comes, is the most exciting one you've ever had. You can't get enough of anything - you want to gobble up the whole goddamned universe just for an appetizer. Them first kicks are a killer.

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Anslinger has the rep of being the man who made MJ illegal in the US - he was a propogandist and whatnot who is really responsible mainly for the spreading of the word about MJ and the imprisonment of a ridiculous amount of people. lots of places hadnt even heard of it until he wrote in papers about it's apparently horrible and tragic effects.

If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana, he would drop dead of fright. (how's that for an image, monster marijuana)

Murders Due To Killer Drug Marihuana Sweeping US(1936)

Shocking crimes of violence are increasing. Murders, slaughterings, cruel mutilations, maimings, done in cold blood, as if some hideous monster was amok in the land... much of this violence [is attributed to] what experts call marihuana. It is another name for hashish... a roadside weed found in almost every State in the Union...Those addicted...lose all restraints, all inhibitions. They become bestial demoniacs, filled with a mad lust to kill...

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Some viper music (sub-genre of jazz) lyrics:

Dreamed about a reefer five foot long.
Mighty Mezz, but not too strong.
You'll be high but not for long
If you're a viper.
I'm the king of everything.
I've got to be high before I can swing.
Light a tea and let it be
If you're a viper.

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An intro to a radio show played for the troops in 1943 (most of the troops - other than blacks and those in on the jazz scene - wouldn't have known what MJ was - the officers definetely wouldn't've.):

Hey, cats, it's four o'clock in the mornin'. I just left the V-disc studio. Here we are in Harlem. Everybody's here but the police 'n' they'll be here any minute. It's high time, so catch this song...

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There's a lot more in the book, but I hoped you liked those! have a good day, happy smoking

 

I'm very high right now and tried to read this and made no sense of it. Hopefully I can come back sober and understand this. Thanks anyway.

 

marijuana is the foundation and embodiment of all evil.

 

lol could be me, im baked too

 

the story about the mexican family sounds a lot like this retro public service announcement i saw called "The Blunt Truth" in it it stated that smoking pot got you briefly euphoric and gave you the uncontrollable urge to wear sunglasses at night and then made you permanently insane! if that public service announcement was true then i would estimate that around 20-30 million americans were clinicly insane. read a study somewhere that around 16 million americans smoke pot at least once a year, so i should prolly be getting into the pyschiatrist profession here soon to cash in on all the crazy people getting REEFER MADNESS! oh no!
CannabisEuphoria

 

^^ seriously, marijuana prohibition was crazy with lies way more back then, the government used to say that marijuana caused murder and rape ... crazy lol

 

i just read that whole thing. thats pretty insane. some of the shit people come up with.

 

reefer madness, that movie kicks ass, its a cinematic gem.

but we all know what they are trying to say is bullshit, thats why its funny. i was insane before i ever even touched marijuana.