The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21

? situations will be swamped be-
meath it?
Morphine, cocaine, heroin, these
. are the three brothers Of death
let loose in the world today.
But there are two others, quite
as bad, and they ard beginning to
claim their victims by the thou
sands, too.
Marijuana-they raise it in
Mexico and make it into cigarettes.
You can buy Marijuana cigarettes
in Galveston and in Dallas and in
Fort Worth and in New Orleans
and in Baton Rouge, Shreveport,
La, and in San Diego, Cal, and
Los Angeles.
LIKE LOCO WEED.
Marijuana is made from a kind
of second cousin of the loco weed
that drives horses crazy out on
the Southwestern ranges.
Once let horse get a taste of
loco weed and he is worthless as
long as he lives.
Marijuana is short cut to the
insane asylum for men and wom-
en-. It is sure death for children.
In New York and in Detroit
there is a trade in hashish, the In
dian hemp which drives men mad.
Out in Detroit, where the city
has grown like a huge mushroom
in the last two or three years,
there are rows of little bungalows
all built just a little while ago
for hopeful young newlyweds.
The newlvweds are all gone
from those bungalows now. The
factories have crowded up around
them, and the once quiet little
homes for quiet, simple people are
crowded to the doors with swarthy
strangers with cleaning eyes and
strange and subtle looks.
These are Assyrians, Turks, Ar
Ynenians, Lascars. and it is in these
streets that hashish is sold.
Keep away from such q street
at night; a hashish eater or smoker
kills for the mere love OF killing.
It is from that word-hashish---
that we get our word assassin.
Who plants these things and
where?
Who reaps and harvests this
balefuI crop?
To what mysterious profit and
to whose material benefit il the
earth polluted in this sinister
fashion?
Who raises the crops to begin
with? Who buys them. and to
whom high up in the seats OF the
mighty do they sell them again?
What's behind the cruelty OF
this whole blood-sucking. money
getting. soul-wrecking traffic?
Who are those who protect
them?
How is this traffic ringed about
with power!
into what dark and secret fast
ness does it hide when justice is
on it's tail?
|. why is it so hard to catch vio-
Iators Of the narcotic law and
when they are caught who and
what is 1t that 50 often steps in to
protect them?
And how about those Of our
own people who manufacture
these narcotics and send them out
over the world, not by the grain,
not by the ounce, not by the
pound, but by the ton?
To be smuggled back again to
our own very doorsteps.
FACTORY REAPS HARVEST.
One big American factory sent
1000 ounces Of narcotics to one
small eastern retail druggist
every month.
What did those who kept track
of the shipments from that fac
tory think was going to happen to
those 1000 ounces of deadly drugs?
Three and one-half tons of mar
cotics will take care of the legiti-
mate practice Of medicine for the
whole world for one year.
What about the rest Of those
5000 tons Of opium that are pro-
duced every single year?
Is it right and just and sensible
that such things could be allowed
to go on and IL it 10 not right, what
means shall we take to stop the
horror and the cruelty and the
evil money lust Of the whole
hideous trade in. human bodies and
human souls.
Is there dope problem in
America?
What do you think about it2