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Barry
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This was emailed to me and I thought it would make a nice topic. What am I suppose to do with the sticky?
"After reading one of the posts in the General Discussion Forum asking about Harry Anslinger,I decided to see what information I could find. After a fair bit of searching I found This page: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm
I was thinking that maybe in the Forums we could provided a stickied topic linking to this information, and also to hold a discussion on the 1937 Tax Act.
I feel that anyone interested in reforming the Cannabis laws in this country should read this.
As you can see it is fairly complete, missing a few articles but I believe they may be added at a later date."
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FZRaven
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| A sticky would be so it would always stay at the top of the page, as I believe this information will always be useful. |
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Bongzilla
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MikeKruton
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Anslinger relied on tabloids a lot to get this legislation passed. One thing he was known for doing was gathering a collection of articles from some circulating tabloids that made claims of marijuana causing people to commit vicious crimes and lustful acts. They came to be known as the 'Gore Files'. Here is a collection of them.
Probably the most notable 'gore file' to mention would be the case of Victor Licata. He got up one morning and killed his parents, two brothers and a sister with an axe. Anslinger claimed marijuana was responsible for these homicides,by saying Licata "had been addicted to smoking marijuana cigarettes for more than six months". These claims were later debunked when the psychiatrist examining Licata said his mental illness was hereditary. The word marijuana was never even used in his psychiatric file.
Legislators and people still became frightened though, and marijuana has been illegal for 80 years now. It's a shame. |
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MikeKruton
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| (and yes sticky this btw) |
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WildChild
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FZRaven
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| MikeKruton wrote: | Anslinger relied on tabloids a lot to get this legislation passed. One thing he was known for doing was gathering a collection of articles from some circulating tabloids that made claims of marijuana causing people to commit vicious crimes and lustful acts. They came to be known as the 'Gore Files'. Here is a collection of them.
Probably the most notable 'gore file' to mention would be the case of Victor Licata. He got up one morning and killed his parents, two brothers and a sister with an axe. Anslinger claimed marijuana was responsible for these homicides,by saying Licata "had been addicted to smoking marijuana cigarettes for more than six months". These claims were later debunked when the psychiatrist examining Licata said his mental illness was hereditary. The word marijuana was never even used in his psychiatric file.
Legislators and people still became frightened though, and marijuana has been illegal for 80 years now. It's a shame. |
Ya the gore files are just plain fun to read, the bullshit held within them is just amazing. |
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Bongzilla
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Wish I could find a source to link here on the subject, but Anslinger wrote most if not nearly all of the GORE FILES articles in collaboration with Hearst who owned many of these tabloid newspapers. I have seen rumors that Anslinger's daughter ran off with a "colored" jazz musician. The apparent reason Anslinger wasted his career demonizing the Devils' Weed, the Gore Files have since been researched, all but 2 of 200 referenced by Anslinger were proven to have no MJ influence at all. The other 2??? There were no case histories found! The single most sensationalized case by Anslinger was the Victor Licata case. Licata woke one morning and murdered his parents, one sister, and two brothers with an axe. Anslinger claimed Licata had been "addicted" to marijuana cigarettes for the six months prior to the murders. Doctors who later reviewed Mr Licata as well as all documentation associated with the case never refer to MJ. The real story is Mr Licata's family did not want him institutionalized despite police requests.
His parents were first cousins. A granduncle and two first cousins had been committed to insane asylums. His younger brother, one of his victims has been diagnosed with dementia praecox.
Yeah, if he even ever did smoke a joint I'm sure that was what made him crazy. Couldn't have been a hereditary thing like the Doc's said in the asylum where he was later committed, later murdering a fellow inmate and hanging himself.
Yeah... Parents were cousins, insanity knee deep in the gene pool, brother insane, but he smoked pot for six months (allegedly) that was surely the reason the guy was a nutcase! |
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MikeKruton
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| Bongzilla wrote: | Wish I could find a source to link here on the subject, but Anslinger wrote most if not nearly all of the GORE FILES articles in collaboration with Hearst who owned many of these tabloid newspapers. I have seen rumors that Anslinger's daughter ran off with a "colored" jazz musician. The apparent reason Anslinger wasted his career demonizing the Devils' Weed, the Gore Files have since been researched, all but 2 of 200 referenced by Anslinger were proven to have no MJ influence at all. The other 2??? There were no case histories found! The single most sensationalized case by Anslinger was the Victor Licata case. Licata woke one morning and murdered his parents, one sister, and two brothers with an axe. Anslinger claimed Licata had been "addicted" to marijuana cigarettes for the six months prior to the murders. Doctors who later reviewed Mr Licata as well as all documentation associated with the case never refer to MJ. The real story is Mr Licata's family did not want him institutionalized despite police requests.
His parents were first cousins. A granduncle and two first cousins had been committed to insane asylums. His younger brother, one of his victims has been diagnosed with dementia praecox.
Yeah, if he even ever did smoke a joint I'm sure that was what made him crazy. Couldn't have been a hereditary thing like the Doc's said in the asylum where he was later committed, later murdering a fellow inmate and hanging himself.
Yeah... Parents were cousins, insanity knee deep in the gene pool, brother insane, but he smoked pot for six months (allegedly) that was surely the reason the guy was a nutcase! |
While most of this is redundant, as I practically said some of that stuff verbatim, I did not know the tidbits about his parents. Good info! |
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Bongzilla
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| Oops! guess my drunk ass shoulda read the other posts a bit more thoroughly. I admit it I'm an ass!! |
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hippydj
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: 1937 Tax Act. |
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| Barry wrote: | This was emailed to me and I thought it would make a nice topic. What am I suppose to do with the sticky?
"After reading one of the posts in the General Discussion Forum asking about Harry Anslinger,I decided to see what information I could find. After a fair bit of searching I found This page: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm
I was thinking that maybe in the Forums we could provided a stickied topic linking to this information, and also to hold a discussion on the 1937 Tax Act.
I feel that anyone interested in reforming the Cannabis laws in this country should read this.
As you can see it is fairly complete, missing a few articles but I believe they may be added at a later date."
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some good reading there. Thanks for posting it, Barry  |
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MikeKruton
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| Bongzilla wrote: | | Oops! guess my drunk ass shoulda read the other posts a bit more thoroughly. I admit it I'm an ass!! |
lmao, you're not an ass, you're a stoner  |
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