Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 Opposed by the AMA (American Medical Association)

1936 - 1938: William Randolph Hearst's newspaper empire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust create terror of the killer weed from Mexico. Through his relentless misinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word marijuana into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about marijuana-crazed negroes raping white women and playing voodoo-satanic jazz music. Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks -- according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers -- dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame! 1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic plastic fibers from German industrial giant IG Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I. A few years later, IG Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's IG Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich. 1937: The year the federal government outlawed cannabis. -- DuPont patents petrochemical manufacturing processes for making plastics, as ...

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