Drug WarRant

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"I wish I could show you what a small marijuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions."
Harry J. Anslinger read this letter into the official record during the hearings on the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act,

Discriminatory intent was not limited to the Federal level.

In Texas, the anti-marijuana proponents included this statement in the official records; "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff (referring to marijuana) is what makes them crazy."

Perhaps even more disturbing is the testimony of Dr. Fred Fulsher during Montana's prohibition; "Marijuana is Mexican opium, a plant used by Mexicans and cultivated for sale by Indians. When some beet field peon takes a few rares of this stuff, he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico so he starts out to execute all his political enemies. I understand that over in Butte where the Mexicans often go for the winter they stage imaginary bullfights in the "Bower of Roses" or put on tournaments for the favor of "Spanish Rose" after a couple whiffs of Marijuana. The Silver Bow and Yellowstone delegations both deplore these international complications."



Mexico President Seeks Review of Drug Law
By James C. McKinley Jr. and John Broder 
Source: New York Times May 03, 2006 Mexico City
After intense pressure from the United States, President Vicente Fox has asked Congress to reconsider a law it passed last week that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as part of a larger effort to crack down on street-level dealing. In a statement issued late Wednesday, Mr. Fox said the law should be changed "to make it absolutely clear that in our country the possession of drugs and their consumption are and continue to be crimes."



There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
-- Harry Anslinger,
1937 testimony to Congress in support of the Marijuana Tax Act.

EDITORIAL: OH, MEXICO (OH, THE EMBARRASSMENT)
US officials have now embarrassed us with both our immediate neighbors by interfering in their internal drug policies.



* FEATURE: MEXICO MOVES TO DECRIMINALIZE DRUG POSSESSION -- NO, WAIT, NEVERMIND
For a few days this week, it looked like Mexico was going to decriminalize drug possession, but that ended Wednesday when President Fox rejected the bill under US pressure.

Threats From USA Force Mexico to Drop Decrim Plans
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Vicente Fox refused to sign a drug decriminalization bill Wednesday, hours after U.S. officials warned the plan could encourage “drug tourism.” Fox sent the measure back to Congress for changes, but his office did not mention the U.S. criticism.

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

EUROPE: SCOTTISH FIRST MINISTER SLAMS POLICE FOR DRUG LEGALIZATION SUGGESTION
Three weeks ago, Scotland's largest police union called for the legalization of all drugs. At their conference last week a government official blasted the idea.



Officially GOPerverted

H.R. 1310, the Medical Marijuana Prevention Act of 1997, directs the Attorney General to revoke the medical license of any practitioner who recommends the use of a controlled substance that is illegal under federal law.

H.R. 309, the Anti-Drug Legalization Act, prohibits any federal department or agency from conducting or financing any study or research involving the "legalization" of drugs.
Gerald B. H. Solomon (R-NY)



Canada: From Bad to Worse on Drug Policy?
A major player in the push for reform to our drug laws worries that we are farther away from change than ever now that the Conservatives are in power. "My fear is that we're going to fall more and more into the pocket of the American war-on-drugs approach," says Eugene Oscapella of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy.



Legalizing Drug Use in Mexico Called 'Reckless'
May 03, 2006 San Diego -- A move in Mexico to legalize narcotics represents a serious danger to the United States, Mayor Jerry Sanders said today. The move by the Mexican Congress to allow possession of drugs that are illegal in the United States is "appalling, reckless and incredibly dangerous," said Sanders, the city's former police chief.

Weed Watch: Blowing Bad Smoke May 04, 2006

FDA's Weed War May 04, 2006

S.B. 40, the Drug Use Prevention Act, would jail doctors for recommending mj to patients. Sen. Faircloth thinks that 8 years in the slammer and a $60,000 fine is appropriate punishment for a doctor who would so boldly flout the law by even responding to questions about mj to a patient.
Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC)



Police Are the Prohibitionist Lobby in Canada
The people of Canada have been at war over Cannabis for longer than we have ever been at war before. The war is called “Canada’s Drug Strategy” and for more than 30 years the Canadian government – and particularly the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – have waged a vicious and costly campaign against our own citizens.
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Marijuana Smokers are Filling Jails By Reverend Damuzi
with Cheap Labour for Corporate Profit



DEA Release Admits Marc Emery Extradition Politically Motivated
The US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted on the day of Marc Emery's arrest that his investigation and extradition were politically motivated, designed to target the Marijuana Legalization organization that Emery spearheaded and ran for over a decade in Canada.
F U L L S T O R Y/4685.html



U.S. Warns Against Liberalizing Laws on Pot

Canadian Pot Debate Worries U.S. Officials

U.S. Government Threatens Canada with Trade Sanctions

PM Says No To Looser Drug Laws

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats



I do not think there is such a thing as not being able to cure an addict. Marihuana addicts may go to a Federal narcotic farm. But I have not seen many addicts who could not be cured. An addict could drop it and he will not experience any ill effects.
Harry J. Anslinger Sworn Congressional testimony 1937

More People Seek Help for Marijuana Addiction
The Wall Street Journal May 02, 2006 USA
Yet if marijuana addiction were benign,
thousands of Americans wouldn't be seeking to kick the habit each year.
Kevin Helliker

Kevin, you moron -- yes they would -- if it's a choice between treatment and jail.
Pete Guither

Ganjawar in Shambles

A History of Marijuana

Decriminalization
In 1972, The National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse did the most comprehensive study to date, called Marijuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding. This study, commissioned by Congress, found that moderate marijuana smoking presents no significant risk to the user or to society, and recommended that the country "decriminalize" minor marijuana offenses; i.e., that penalties be removed for personal use and possession. So far, only 11 states have decriminalized marijuana, and the federal government shows no sign of following suit.

Mexico's Fox To OK Drug Decriminalization Law

Mexican Drug War, A Desperate Measure



Shame On Canada! Shame On America! by Richard Cowan
Kubby to Be Held Without Bail
No Doctor In Four Days. 2006-02-01
Steve's life remains in great danger, and right now he is the subject (victim) of a bizarre medical experiment that should outrage the medical profession. He is as much a victim of torture as anyone in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib. Of course, if he were an accused terrorist, Amnesty International would have been there today.

The war on drugs corrupts our police



Mexico Decriminalizes Small Amounts of Drugs



EUROPE: GERMANY PLANS TO PROVIDE FREE HEROIN TO LONG-TERM ADDICTS
A pilot program to see if heroin maintenance programs could reduce criminality, overdose and disease among hard-core addicts was successful, according to German officials. Now they are planning to expand it.



Stephen Harper's Drug Problem 01 Feb, 2006
What is the destructive force driving Stephen Harper?



What should move us to action is human dignity:
the inalienable dignity of the oppressed,
but also the dignity of each of us.
We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Dominique de Menil



Meet The New Justice Minister of Canada
The Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper was sworn in today as Prime Minister, and his Cabinet choices announced. A vicious prohibitionist was named to the Justice Ministry portfolio. Former prosecutor Vic Toews (pronounced Taves) now holds the position of Justice Minister.



Canada: HARPER'S REEFER MADNESS
Over the weekend, Conservative leader Stephen Harper said: "A Conservative government will not reintroduce the Liberal plan to decriminalize the possession of marijuana, and we will never endorse the NDP idea of legalizing it outright."

Environmental Weed
Plants Are Targeted By Anti-Drug Corporations

Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores



The Ganjawar Comes To The Rez

S.D. Family Seeks The Right To Grow Hemp



US drug-war in Canada! 27 Jun, 2001
Cross-border drug war destroys Canadian sovereignty,
as NAFTA helps DEA control RCMP in BC.



Welcome to the Ganjawar

And Ye shall know the Truth,
And the Truth shall set you free!
--St. John the Gospel

Follow The Drug War Money By Paul Campos
Source: Rocky Mountain News April 25, 2006 USA  
This is the story of two drugs. The first, dexfenfluramine, was the active ingredient in the weight loss drug Redux. Although it was available in the U.S. and Canada for only about 18 months, it killed hundreds of people, and severely injured thousands more. The second is marijuana. Over the past several decades, tens of millions of people across North America have used this drug regularly. It has, as far as anybody knows, killed no one.

D.E.A.th Deceptions

FLUOXETINE - ORAL (flew-OX-eh-teen)
COMMON BRAND NAME(S): Prozac, Sarafem
SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea, headache, trouble sleeping, dry mouth, drowsiness, sweating, or upset stomach may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor promptly.

Tell your doctor immediately if any of these serious side effects occur: loss of appetite, unusual weight loss, unusual or severe mental/mood changes, uncontrolled movements (tremor), decreased interest in sex, flu-like symptoms (e.g., chills, fever, muscle aches, weakness).

Tell your doctor immediately if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: vision changes, trouble swallowing, swelling or white spots on the mouth and/or tongue, changes in sexual ability, painful and/or prolonged erection.

Tell your doctor immediately if any of these highly unlikely but very serious side effects occur: fainting, irregular/fast heartbeat. An allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs.

Symptoms of an allergic reaction include: rash, itching, swelling, dizziness, trouble breathing. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.



Extradition Blues
The US government is in the process of spending at least a quarter of a million dollars to investigate, arrest and kidnap a prominent Canadian citizen from Canada and put him on trial in the United States.

The Political Forum: Emery Extradition

Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns,
why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

The Drug War Refugees

Emery contends a news release issued July 29, the day of his arrest, reveals the U.S. government's intention to mute his efforts to advance the spread of marijuana. In the release, Karen Tandy, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, wrote: "Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. ... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada."

The 'Virtues' of Ganja

Tandy's office has declined to comment about the statement, but locally, federal prosecutors have distanced themselves from her remarks.

The Ganjawar Fraud...

"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
Robert Ingersoll, then Director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in a column by Jack Anderson in the Washington Post, June 24, 1972, p. 31 (Ingersoll became the first director of the DEA in 1974)



"The DEA is unequivocally opposed to the legalization of illicit drugs
(including, marijuana, hemp, and hemp seed oil)."
- US DEA booklet, "Speaking Out Against Legalization"

Bush's Contra Buddies by PETER KORNBLUH
The current President George Bush, whose very name evokes a dark era many would prefer to forget, seems determined to resurrect the ghosts of America's scandal-ridden past. A number of his foreign policy appointments are former Iran-contra operatives who are being rehabilitated and rewarded with powerful foreign policy posts.

Ye shall know the truth,
And the truth shall make you angry.
Aldous Huxley

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
Chapter -XVIII- Iran- Contra



The Bush Crime Family Terrorist Bank By Stewart Webb
Top Secret Indictments and arrest warrants issued by the Congress and Senate of Costa Rico against Col. Oliver North, U.S. Attorney William Richard Scruggs, and the other Bush Crime Family members. These Indictments with requests for extradition and warrants are being ignored today.)

CIA Report on Contras and Cocaine

"A little sunlight is the best disinfectant."
--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

The Iran-Contra Hearings Trading Cards

The Racist Ganjawar



CIA AND DRUGS READING LIST
1. The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy (1972, 1991)
Lawrence Hill Books - ISBN 1-55652-125-1
2. Cocaine Politics by Peter Dale Scott & Johnathan Marshall (1991)
U.C. Press - ISBN 0-520-07781-4
3. The Iran-Contra Connection by Scott, Marshall, and Hunter (1987)
South End Press - ISBN 0-89608-291-1
4. The Big White Lie by Mike Levine (1993)
Thunder's Mouth Press - ISBN 1-56025-064
5. Compromised by Terry Reed (1995)
Penmarin Books - ISBN 1-883955-02-5
6. Powder Burns by Clerino Castillo (1994)
Mosaic Press - ISBN 0-88962-578-6
7. The Underground Empire by James Mills (1974, 1978)
Doubleday - ISBN 0-385-17535-3
8. Inside The Shadow Government by the Christic Institute (1987)
Declaration of Plantiff's Counsel Filed by the Christic Institute -
U.S. District Court, Miami, FL.
9. Kiss The Boys Goodbye by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and Wm
Stevenson (1990)
Dutton - ISBN 0-525-24934-6
10. Defrauding America by Rodney Stich (1994)
Diablo Western Press - ISBN 0-932438-08-3
11. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords by Elaine Shannon
U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win (1988) Viking Press

THESE BOOKS NAME NAMES, DATES AND PLACES
WHERE THE CIA DEALT DRUGS.
NOT ONE OF THE ABOVE AUTHORS HAS BEEN SUED FOR LIBEL -- EVER!
Almost all of these books are available by mail or phone order from:
THE CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MODERN HISTORY
(805) 899-3433

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Veto Sparks Mexico City Marijuana Smoke-In
CN Source: Fox News Network Mexico City May 06, 2006
The issue of drug decriminalization split Mexican politics in strange ways on Saturday, after President Vicente Fox refused to sign a bill that would have eliminated criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs. About 500 protesters held a marijuana smoke-in in Mexico City, and a presidential candidate who visited the demonstration came out in favor of decriminalization. Mexico City's police chief came out against it, and some members of Congress accused Fox of yielding to U.S. pressure to veto the bill.
Read More... cannabisnews.com/21826

Ganjawar Puppets Cave... again

"Since you [US "drug tsar" McCaffrey] control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?"
Judge James P. Gray Orange Country, California Los Angeles Times 29 March 2000

Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years

Reefer Racism

In the southwest, the sudden increase in Mexican immigration to the Untied States around 1910 set off yet another round of ethnic confrontation. The Mexicans were lower-class immigrants. They were crude, loud, uneducated. They lived in dirty shanties, ate strange food, and spoke a foreign language. The more resentful of these foreigners Americans became, the readier they were to attribute other negative characteristics to the Mexican. The fact that the Mexicans were Catholics made their situation even more touchy since Protestant America considered Catholicism a religion of dark superstition and ignorance.

The Mexican was the Negro of the southwestern United States. While not a slave or a sharecropper, he was a peasant. The stereotype of the Mexican was that of a thief, an untamed savage, hot-blooded, quick to anger yet inherently lazy and irresponsible.

When revolution broke out in Mexico in 1910, it was inevitable that the fighting would spill across the Rio Grande. When Pancho Villa attacked the tiny outpost at Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916, the attitude toward the Mexicans worsened considerably. As General Pershing's army crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of the bandit, his soldiers marched to the tune of a song that reflected America's attitude toward all Mexicans:

It's a long way to capture Villa
It's a long way to go;
It's a long way across the border
Where the dirty greasers grow.

Villa's followers rode to a different song "La Cucaracha" - the cockroach (soldier) who can't walk any longer because he doesn't have any marijuana to smoke:

La cucaracha, la cucaracha
Ya no puede caminar
Porque no tiene, porque no tiene
Marihuana que fumar.

The song was adopted as Villa's battle hymn after his capture of Torreon and subsequent overthrow of the Mexican government because many of his men had smoked marihuana before going into battle, much like other soldiers drinking alcohol before battle.

When the 1930s devastated the American economy, the Mexicans bore the brunt of the scapegoat mentality in the southwest. Everything about them was abhorrent to many Americans, and there was a general hew and cry to kick them out of the country. Harassment was commonplace. The Mexicans were censured for almost everything they did or failed to do, including smoking marijuana. Marihuana, in fact, became the pretext for vexing the Mexicans just as opium had been the pretext for vexing the Chinese years before.

Yeah, the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight

Ganjawar in Shambles

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
" Upton Sinclair Author of "The Jungle"

Youth of Assassins!

"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
- William F. Buckley Jr.

Christian Extremism and Terrorism In History

On the basis of the testimony given, their own personal observation, and examination of military files, the committee finally concluded that marihuana was not habit forming nor did it have "any appreciable deleterious influence on the individual using it". Previous orders forbidding possession of marihuana were subsequently rescinded in 1926.
April 1, 1925, a formal committee was convened to investigate the traffic in marihuana in the Canal Zone



American High Society,
a subchapter from "Hemp: Lifeline To The Future," by Chris Conrad.
Dr. Burke, President of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. Madison once remarked that hemp gave him insight to create a new and democratic nation. Cannabis was twice as popular among American soldiers in the Mexican War as in Vietnam: Pierce wrote to his family that it was "about the only good thing" about that war.

Some Excellent Articles About Cannabis and Drug Policy



by GrandaddyBonegrinder  
The Conspiracy behind the Prohibition of Hemp

Considering himself the great crusader of the rights of the common man, (as long as that man was white and his views were racist and conservative), William Randolph Hearst used his great newspaper monopoly to influence the masses of the times. Starting with the Spanish American War of 1896, the Hearst Newspaper denounced Spaniards, Mexicans and Latinos. Hearst also launched a similar racist campaign against the "Yellow Peril" of the Chinese, and from 1910 to 1920 the Hearst newspapers would say that the majority of Negroes raping white woman could be traced directly to cocaine (Winkler 1955).

Then, coincidentally, just after the seizure of 800,000 acres of Hearst's prime Texas timberland by the "marijuana" smoking army of Poncho Villa, these stories changed, and now it was "marijuana crazed Negroes raping white women." Non-stop for the next three decades, Hearst and other sensational tabloids ran headlines atop stories portraying Negroes and Mexicans as frenzied beasts under the influence of marijuana, who played anti-white "voodoo-satanic" music.

According to Hearst's "yellow journalism" all violent crime and virtually every other type of social ill, was caused by "Reefer Madness� and "Marijuana -- Assassin of Youth." The "evil" of marijuana was burned into the minds of a predominantly white protestant readership for over thirty years (Conrad, 1993).

Mexicans, under the influence of marijuana, were demanding humane treatment, looking at white women, and asking that their children be educated while the parents harvested sugar beets, and other "insolent" demands. Why, when the "darkies" smoked this evil "weed" they started thinking that they were as good as "white men" (Herer, 69)!

This Jim Crow (apartheid) "crime wave" included: stepping on a white man's shadow, looking white people directly in the eye, looking at a white woman twice, laughing at a white person, etc.. For such "crimes", hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Negroes spent (collectively) millions of years in prisons and on chain gangs, under brutal segregation laws in effect throughout the U.S. until the 1950's and 60s. Hearst, through pervasive and repetitive use, pounded the obscure Mexican slang word "marijuana" into the English speaking American consciousness, making it synonymous with crime and violence. The word "Hemp" was discarded and the scientific term "Cannabis" was ignored or buried (Conrad, 1993).



Arm Yourself Against The "War On Drugs"

"Whom ever Controls your Perception of Reality Controls You"

Let's be clear: There is not now, nor has there ever been, a "War on Drugs."

What there is is a cynical program of political duplicity; the intent of which is not to prevent drug abuse (which it encourages), but to create a climate of distrust, fear, hostility, alienation, divisiveness, and violence within our society. The so called "War on Drugs" is in reality a war of cultural prejudice waged primarily against the young, the poor, the non-white and the socially disaffected to the advantage of the Elected, the Corporate, the Privileged and the Few.



“Mexico is being destabilized by drug gangs warring over access to the lucrative U.S. market. A wave of killings of officials and journalists in places like Nuevo Laredo and Acapulco is reminiscent of the 1930s Prohibition-era crime waves in Al Capone's Chicago and the Purple Gang's Detroit.”
– Wall Street Journal columnist, George Melloan.
  
Lou Dobbs and the Second Mexican War
Has It Already Begun? Counting the Costs of the Drugwar.
Posted by Richard Cowan on 2006-02-16 16:20:00

I would like to suggest to the leaders of the Mexican cartels that instead of killing reporters, they should just send them to intern at major US media outlets like the Washington Post, Time Magazine, the New York Times, etc. There they would quickly learn never to ask questions about the drugwar. Instead of risking their lives reporting an endless series of murders, they would just parrot the prohibitionist line from the government, like Lou Dobbs.

One should not invoke the truth if one is committed to maintaining a lie, as Dobbs and other supporters of the drugwar must be. Indeed, they would do well to remember the line from Pogo, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Guest Rant: Ethan Straffin takes on Lou Dobbs
8/12/03Last week, Lou Dobbs hosted a series on CNN called "The Forgotten War" (entire transcript) in which he gave particular emphasis to the distortions of drug war cheerleaders like former drug czar William Bennett and current drug czar John Walters.

Why legalizing drugs is dopey idea by Lou Dobbs
NY Daily News (August 10, 2003)

Richard Cowan's Lengthy Response to Lou Dobbs



United States Response and Involvement with Mexico during the Revolution

The United States was involved politically and socially with the Mexican revolution from 1910-1920.

"Why should Christians support legalizing marijuana?" By Jim Atto, Jr.

"HOW MARIJUANA BECAME ILLEGAL"

In the early 1900's a very powerful and very bigoted man by the name of William Randolph Hearst (who hated Asian, African, and Hispanic Americans with a passion), had 800,000 acres of his prime timber lands in Mexico seized by the Mexican Revolutionary Poncho Villa.

Hearst was an extremely powerful lumber, paper, and newspaper tycoon, Hearst turned the power of his printing presses against "the marijuana smoking army of Poncho Villa."

Since marijuana was popular among Mexicans and Blacks living in the South, Hearst decided to also use it against them.

He printed inflammatory articles about lazy Mexicans and Blacks peddling a "Killer Weed" from Mexico, which he claimed made Blacks behave disrespectfully toward white people, such as looking a white person directly in the eye, or stepping on a white person's shadow; he also claimed that marijuana could drive people insane, turn them into sex-crazed rapists and homicidal killers, and eventually brain dead vegetables.

(Basically, whenever something bad happened, if that person had ever smoked marijuana he blamed their actions on marijuana).

Hearst wrote with such passion and alarm that he created a state of panic in the South. And Southern States began outlawing marijuana, and thousands of innocent Mexicans and Blacks were hauled off to prison.


General Pershing with Poncho Villa

Congressional Gold Medal Recipient General John J. Pershing

Leader of 12,000 Troops in Futile Expedition in Mexico Chased Pancho Villa

One night in March, 1916, Pancho Villa galloped across the border into Columbus, N. M., killed eight American soldiers and wounded nine civilians, and fled back into the fastnesses of northern Mexico.

President Wilson could endure the outrages no longer and ordered General Pershing to cross the border with a punitive expedition to get Villa.

General Pershing acted with dispatch and four days later had 6,000 men in Mexico. Eventually he had 12,000 men there on an expedition doomed to failure. The Carranza Government not only refused to cooperate with the Americans against Villa, but threw obstacles in their way. Pershing, restrained by orders from Washington from making an aggressive campaign, was obliged to use both firmness and diplomacy.

Once a Mexican general transmitted to Pershing an order from his Government that Pershing could move only to the northward and threatened an attack if Pershing did not obey.

Pershing barked back at him:

"Tell President Carranza that I do not take orders except from my own Government. I shall use my own judgment as to when and in what direction I shall move my forces in pursuit of bandits or in seeking information regarding  bandits."

With all the handicaps imposed, Villa could not be caught and early in 1917 the punitive expedition was withdrawn. Pershing meanwhile had been promoted to major general. General Funston died suddenly and Pershing was appointed commander of the border troops in his place.

Mexican Americans by Jack Herer
Ch:13 The Marijuana Conspiracy

In 1915, California and Utah passed state laws outlawing marijuana for the same “Jim Crow” reasons—but directed through the Hearst papers at Chicanos.

Colorado followed in 1917. Its legislators cited excesses of Pancho Villa’s rebel army, whose drug of choice was supposed to have been marijuana. (If true, this means that marijuana helped to overthrow one of the most repressive and evil regimes Mexico ever suffered.)

The Colorado Legislature felt the only way to prevent an actual racial blood bath and the overthrow of their (whites’) ignorant and bigoted laws, attitudes, and institutions was to stop marijuana.

Mexicans under marijuana’s influence were demanding humane treatment, looking at white women, and asking that their children be educated while the parents harvested sugar beets; and other “insolent” demands. With the excuse of marijuana (Killer Weed) the whites could now use force and rationalize their violent acts of repression.

This “reefer racism” continues into the present day. In 1937, Harry Anslinger told Congress that there were between 50,000 to 100,000* total marijuana smokers then in the U.S. and most of them were “Negroes and Mexicans, and entertainers,” and their music, jazz and swing, was an outgrowth of this marijuana use. Anslinger insisted this “satanic” music and the use of marijuana caused white women to “seek sexual relations with Negroes!”

* Anslinger would flip to know there are 26 million daily marijuana users and another 30 - 40 million occasional users in America now, and that rock ‘n’ roll and jazz are enjoyed by tens of millions who have never smoked marijuana.

Smoking in America

The first known* smoking of female cannabis tops in the Western hemisphere was probably in the 1870s in the West Indies (Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, etc.); and arrived with the immigration of thousands of Indian Hindus (from British-controlled India) imported for cheaper labor. By 1886, Mexicans and black sailors, who traded in those islands, picked up and spread its use throughout all the West Indies and Mexico.

* There are other theories about the first known “smoking” of hemp flower tops, e.g., by American and Brazilian slaves, Shawnee Indians, etc., some fascinating—but none verifiable.

Cannabis smoking was generally used in the West Indies to ease the back-breaking work in the cane fields, beat the heat, and to relax in the evenings without the threat of an alcohol hangover in the morning.

* The jazz and swing music of “Negroes, Mexicans, and entertainers,”—was declared an outgrowth of marijuana use.

Given its late 19th Century area of usage—the Caribbean West Indies and Mexico—it is not surprising the first marijuana use recorded in the U.S. was by Mexicans in Brownsville, Texas, in 1903. And the first marijuana prohibition law in America—ipertaining only to Mexicans—iwas passed in Brownsville in that same year.

“Ganga” use was next reported in 1909 in the port of New Orleans, in the black dominated “Storeyville” section frequented by sailors.

New Orleans’ Storeyville was filled with cabarets, brothels, music, and all the other accouterments of “red light” districts the world over. Sailors from the Islands took their shore leave and their marijuana there.



The Racist Ganjawar

PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS

Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it.
It's left a trail of graft and slime
It don't prohibit worth a dime
It's filled our land with vice and crime,
Nevertheless, we're for it.
-- newspaperman Franklin P. Adams, 1931, in the New York World,
on the release of the Wickersham Commission report

How and why was hemp made illegal?

By capitalizing on racist sentiments, a powerful political lobby banned opium and then cocaine. Marijuana was next. It was well known that the Mexican soldiers who fought America during the war with Spain smoked marijuana. Poncho Villa, A Mexican general, was considered a nemesis for the behavior of his troops, who were known to be especially rowdy. They were also known to be heavy marijuana smokers, as the original lyrics to the song `la cucaracha' show. (The song was originally about a Mexican soldier who refused to march until he was provided with some marijuana.)

The US Marijuana Drug War: A Service, A Failure, Or A Tool Of Power? pdf
William Randolph Hearst’s anger with Poncho Villa during the Spanish - American War. In the early 1900s, marijuana was smoked by Mexicans.

Insanity [is] ... Continuing to do the same things and expecting different results
-- Albert Einstein



Seems a lot of the Anslinger gore files and Hearst publications of reefer madness were stolen and adapted from Ambrose Bierce's Civil War horror stories. Totally unrelated to Ganja. That fits since who ever heard of a Drug Co. Czar having a creative imagination, they'd have to steal it from someone? Souderwalters simply pay Madison Ave advertizers to add visual aids to their ridiculous heathern devil weed propaganda. DrugCoCzars still Jazzing up lies against Ganja. DdC

Ambrose Bierce Biography (excerpted)

Through the years, Bierce had written many short stories. Some of which were inspired by his experiences in the Civil War. He wrote about the true horror of war. Bierce's "war stories" were oftenly compared to Stephen Crane's.

His characters were often murderers, and incestuous, creating a gross and demonic image of life. Even though Bierce had a hard time getting these stories published, they lacked in the belief of the supernatural.

William Randolph Hearst went to Bierce and offered him a column in his paper. So Bierce did that for the next twenty years. But during that time, his two sons died, and his wife finally divorced him.

In 1913, Bierce, now seventy-one, created the greates tale of his life. Many people say he was sitting in a bar "as drunk as a skunk," and disappeared down an alley and never seen again. And that is the truth, some say he went to go fight along side Poncho Villa in Mexico, but no story or myth has ever been proven.



The Works of Ambrose Bierce

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
-- William Randolph Hearst, initially a supporter of Prohibition,
explaining his change of mind in 1929.
From "Drink: A Social History of America" by Andrew Barr (1999), p. 239

The Mexican Connection DrugWarRant

In the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing's army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.
One of the "differences" seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them.

However, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)

Other states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, including Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). These laws tended to be specifically targeted against the Mexican-American population.

When Montana outlawed marijuana in 1927, the Butte Montana Standard reported a legislator's comment: "When some beet field peon takes a few traces of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies." In Texas, a senator said on the floor of the Senate: "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff [marijuana] is what makes them crazy."

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. -- Seneca, A.D. 65

For over fifty years the United States has been committed to a policy of suppressing the "abuse" of narcotic and other "dangerous" drugs. The primary instrument in carrying out this policy has been the criminal sanction. The results of this reliance on the criminal sanction have included the following:

(1) Several hundred thousand people, the overwhelming majority of whom have been primarily users rather than traffickers, have been subjected to severe criminal punishment.
(2) An immensely profitable illegal traffic in narcotic and other forbidden drugs has developed.
(3) This illegal traffic has contributed significantly to the growth and prosperity of organized criminal groups.
(4) A substantial number of all acquisitive crimes - burglary, robbery, auto theft, other forms of larceny - have been committed by drug users in order to get the wherewithal to pay the artificially high prices charged for drugs on the illegal market.
(5) Billions of dollars and a significant proportion of total law enforcement resources have been expended in all stages of the criminal process.
(6) A disturbingly large number of undesirable police practices - unconstitutional searches and seizures, entrapment, electronic surveillance have become habitual because of the great difficulty that attends the detection of narcotics offenses.
(7) The burden of enforcement has fallen primarily on the urban poor, especially Negroes and Mexican-Americans.
(8) Research on the causes, effects, and cures of drug use has been stultified.
(9) The medical profession has been intimidated into neglecting its accustomed role of relieving this form of human misery.
(10) A large and well-entrenched enforcement bureaucracy has developed a vested interest in the status quo, and has effectively thwarted all but the most marginal reforms.
(11) Legislative invocations of the criminal sanction have automatically and unthinkingly been extended from narcotics to marijuana to the flood of new mind-altering drugs that have appeared in recent years, thereby compounding the preexisting problem.

A clearer case of misapplication of the criminal sanction would be difficult to imagine.
-- "The Limits of the Criminal Sanction," by Herbert Packer, 1968

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Drug Bill Veto Sparks Mexico City Marijuana Smoke-In


A man smokes pot during a demonstration to celebrate the Day for the Liberation of Marijuana in Mexico City.


A man shows a marijuana cigarette at a protest in Mexico City.

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A Smokin'-Hot Dilemma By Don Erler 
Source: Star-Telegram May 12, 2006 Texas  
Smart or stupid, prudent or foolish? What was Mexican President Vicente Fox thinking May 2 when his spokesman confirmed that he would sign legislation allowing individuals to possess small quantities of several currently illegal drugs, including cocaine and marijuana? Supporters of the law in the upper house of Mexico's Congress included most senators from both the conservative PAN and the more liberal PRI parties. They claimed that allowing personal use of small quantities of drugs would free authorities to focus interdiction efforts on larger drug traffickers.
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Mexico Tries Easing Drug Laws

In Texas, the anti-marijuana proponents included this statement in the official records; "All Mexicans are crazy, and this stuff (referring to marijuana) is what makes them crazy."

Mexico winning its independence from Spain in 1821 Texas became part of the
Republic of Mexico. The Mexican flag flew over Texas from 1821 to 1836.


The Texican Flag (1821-1836)

Jamaica: Editorial: Mexico's Marijuana Decision

"I wish I could show you what a small marijuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions."
Harry J. Anslinger read this letter into the official record during the hearings on the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act

The Politics of Pot

Discriminatory intent was not limited to the Federal level.