Pubdate: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
Source: Aspen Times, The  (CO)
Copyright: 2011 Aspen Times
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/zKpMPhQ7
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Author: Ralph Givens
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n350/a10.html

REEFER MADNESS

Dear Editor:

Etna Taucher has apparently forgotten that medical marijuana is now 
legal in Colorado ("Please, DEA, keep fighting war on drugs," 
letters, May 30, 2011, The Aspen Times). Evidently the will of the 
voters is meaningless to her. Another point of ignorance on her part 
is the fact that marijuana prohibition is based on absurd racist lies.

"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, 1934

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are 
Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, 
jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana can cause 
white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and 
any others." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger,

"... the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the 
degenerate races" - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. 
Anslinger, 1930

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, 
criminality and death." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry 
J. Anslinger, 1937

"Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of 
mankind." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger

"[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania, 
probably to kill his brother." (see U.S. Government Propaganda To 
Outlaw Marijuana - www.druglibrary.org/ schaffer/hemp/ taxact/t3.htm )

So why does Ms. Taucher want more reefer-madness law enforcement?

Ralph Givens

Daly City, Calif.
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