The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-24

dreds and thousands Of tons of 1t.
Yet we manufacture hundreds Of
tons right here in this country year
in and year out.
we get the crude opium and the
ora leaves-one from the Orient
and the other from South and
Central America-and we make it
over into dope" that will enslave
whole nations and then ask other
nations 10 meet and confer about
some practical way of stopping this
horribi evil, at it's source.
Stamp out Nhe opium fields. burn
the coca plantations, allow only
certain limited amount of these
drug producing plants, yes. that's a
good idea and some day it will be
carried into effect.
But in the meantime, how about
our own part in this hideous
gamer
Must Clean Own House.
How long are we going to permit
that to go on? ..~ - ---e'-.-
For heroin there is absolutely no
legitimate use at all, and it is the
worst Of the three great wells
morphine, cocaine, and heroin.
The best dentists, physicians, and
surgeons say today that there is no
all-substitutes have been found to
and other surgical operations and
the substitutes do not make dope
=, slaves of anybody.
Why not forbid the raising of the
coca plant at all, anywhere. and
how, any time. This is a subject
which must be discussed seriously
when the great international mar
cotic conference is called by the
President of the United States.
/ But in the meantime, why not stop
our own share in this international
crime?
/ Why not put all narcotics and all
! making and buying and selling 1t
into the Government hands here in
| this country?
! Give World Example.
Why not set a great and practical
example to the rest of the world and
show the other countries that we,
at least, are willing to do our part in
the fight to stamp out this terrible
! menace from the face Of the earth
There will be profit enough in the
legitimate trade in these things to
pay Uncle Sam for his work and for
his vigilance.
What are the arguments against
this plan?
There will be arguments, be sure
of that.
Dollars have a way of arguing
and so they always seem to get the
best of the discussion.
And then-how about the narcotic
we are beginning to grow right here
in our own country?
/ Max3fuono Gv.Oxxv, Hare
To get opium and cocaine we must
go to foreign lands, but we can gel
marijuana right here in the United
States of America.
They are growing it in Mexico and
in Texas and in Southern California
and there Is a plantation of it not
fifty miles from San Francisco this
very day.
Marijuana is a Mexican plant and
it is first cousin to Indian hemp.
Do you know what Indian hemr
is and what it does to people?
They make hasheesh out of Indian
henp down on the Malay peninsula
that's where we get the word "as
sassin"-and it is rocked in the RICH
cradle that child born of Indiar
hemp-the word assassin"
Marijuana Is as bad as hasheesh
ana you can get IL lot a LS" Genus II
San Diego, Cal; in FL Paso, Tex; II
Louisiana, in Mississippi and in Ala
bama
It is smoked in cigarettes, 1t /!
: brewed into cup of tea, or it i:
: dried and made into a powder which
can be shifted like cocaine.
= Breeds Dreams of Murder.
3 And the habitual user of mari
! juana is habitually haunted b!
D dreams of murder-and every once
t in awhile the marijuana user makes
{ his dreams come true, just for fun
D That's what marijuana does to &
!. human being-it turns him into
! blind. deafening beast-worst thar
Q any beast of prey that ever roameC
in any jungle.
We weren't getting dope and tn
dope habit fast enough from India
n and from China, and from Persia
!; and from Turkey, and from the Ma
e lay peninsula, and from Siberia, AM
Q from the Strait Settlements-w
= couldn't manufacture 1t fast enough