The first US Official Expert on marijuana testified in court, under oath, that marijuana could make your incisors grow six inches long and drip with blood. He went on to say that when he tried it, it turned him into a bat.
Marijuana was outlawed for two reasons. In the southwestern states, it was outlawed because "All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy." In the northeastern states, it was outlawed because of the fear that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana - exactly the opposite of the modern "gateway" myth. When it was outlawed at the national level, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics stated that marijuana drove people insane. As proof, he offered the example of a young couple who smoked a joint and became so crazed that they eloped and got married. In the US, opium smoking was originally outlawed because of the fear that Chinese men were luring white women to have sex in opium dens. At the same time, they outlawed the Chinese custom of wearing one's hair in pigtails. Cocaine was outlawed largely because of fears that superhuman Negro Cocaine Fiends would go on a violent rampage and rape white women and shoot white men. It was believed that cocaine made them better marksmen and made them impervious to bullets. Police departments across the US switched to larger caliber pistols in fear of the Negro Cocaine Fiends. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
