Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-02
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movie headliner. The conductor was not
Interested in things. He went up stairs
and won $500 in a poker game.
There really are good many drug adj
diets In the motion picture crowd" an
agent Of the Department of Justice told
me, but most of them are among the low
class, roustabout actors, and the extra
people who are not working steadily but
call themselves actors. However, the
stories have been wildly exaggerated. And
don't forget, young man, that New York
has its dope fends, too"
A good many extras" have been arrested
as addicts at the instance Of the California
State Board of Pharmacy A few years
ago an officer OF the Department of Inter.
nal Revenue having said there were 5000
addicts In Los Angeles narcotic clinic
was established and maintained for year,
but the largest number of patients regis
tered at one time was 300. A peddler ar.
rested by the State board said he had sold
cocaine to one Of the fairest and most pros
porous Of screen actresses. No one else
has accused her.
The Los Angeles police have two detec-
tives on the narcotic DETAIL One OF them
who appeared to me both honest and in
telligent told me that not one in fifty of
IA pifVfc adI ~
wood He also told me of high salaried,
dashing movie star who reported to the
police that a pedder was stealing the stuff
, that dreams are made of into one of the
: finest Hollywood studios The star and
his valet helped the police set trap for
, The peddler and catch him. This recital
: was hugely interesting to me for on the
preceding day had been assured that this
/, same star was himself an addict and bis
, abdomen pitted with needle marks,
!, Some of the studio arrangements have
: paid no attention to rumors that drugs
were being sold on or about their premises,
Others are alive to this danger. One
! studio gave the police the address and tele-
extra She was sent to jail as q peddler
OF cocaine. She had been cabaret enter.
!, tainer and had done "hits" in pictures from
1 time to time
She claimed to be an important actress,
but was bum" was my detectives an
. praisal.
A tip from the wife OF scenario writer
enabled the police to round up a coterie of
!, peddlers in Los Angeles pooroom. A
year and half ago the Universal studio
. caused the arrest of dispenser of NOR
phine. He had hung around the studio,
:. caught on as an extra" and the moment
! he got past the gate began looking for Gus.
: toners among his fellows of the small fry.
: He went to Jail and his wife divorced him.
Cocaine is sold in Los Angeles in
! "bindles," A "bindle" is done up in waxed
tissue Just like drug store powder weighs
!, from two to two and half grains and sells
= for So or $3.50. Some of the peddlers WORT.
: on commissioning cents bindle-others
> buy their stock outright from the whole
:, saler. In their unwritten code eight pieces
!. Of iron" or of candy means eight ounces Of
J, cocaine or morphine. and "harmonica" ID
heroin.
The Los Angeles detective rounded of
!, his information with this:
. "Stories of snow parties in Hollywood
!, are vague People call us up but donr
:, give names or addresses. Personally !
4 think all the dope about dope is exag
1 gerated, It's the Mexicans and negroe.
i who bother us, not the movie folk. A while
: ago we thought we had good one when W.
heard of snow parties IN an old country
k house In Hollywood which had been rented
to count and sublet to others. The stars
were supposed to gather there every nigh
and have a sniff or two. We spent thre,
or four nights around the house. Their,
wera parties there, but 1t was only mss
of bootleggers."
D In certain published accounts of higf
i jinks in Hollywood marihuana is men
toned as one of the drugs consumed b,
~ the insatiate performers. Marihuana /,
Q Indian hemp, sometimes called Mexican
: weed. 1t grows wild over much of th,
g Southwest as ragweed, which It resembles
t does in the East Its seed is sold for bird
e seed. II the Californian has no back yart
/ he can buy quarter of an ounce of bird
Q seed and raise enough marihuana in
i window box to inspire a thousand bandits
n The Mexicans mix the dried leaves will
y tobacco and smoke them in cigarettes
Il The effect is infiammctory stimulation.
The marihuana excites the nerves, dead
u ems fear, turns coward into a swash
y buckler, accentuates evil propensities. +
Q does not soothe or produce pleasant dreams
% and is scorned by the whites. Some COW
J. boys have picked up the habit from tn
!, Mexicans, and whatever use is made o
y marihuana IN Hollywood Is restricted Il
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