en officers arrived at the home they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an ax he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He seemed to be in a daze… He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crimes. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now be was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana. (FBN)The truth about this story has been clearly distorted. It was obviously designed to inflict terror in the citizens of America, as anyone ever having used marijuana would immediately see this as being exceedingly exaggerated. “Marijuana gives its users the feeling of Superman and Superwoman powers,” once stated an Oklahoma US Marshall. These prime examples of our government trying to misinform its people were all rooted in the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Anslinger’s hobbyhorse. In 1937, The Anslinger Campaign managed to win approval of the Marijuana Tax Act. This act was designed with several things in mind. Number one; it prohibited use of marijuana for anything of a non-medicinal nature. Number two; it grouped marijuana with narcotics as far as punishment and severity were concerned. Finally, the Marijuana Tax Act produced revenues. JAMA, a liberal publication of the time immediately sided against the Marijuana Tax Act. Despite millions of dollars and man-hours spent by our government, drug use was still rampant throughout our nation. All of the efficiency and power of our government had done little to curb the number of users, or slow down the rapidly increasing numbers trying these drugs for the first time. Throughout the years of governmental failure, most of our government’s resources were devoted to useless attempts at stopping drug use, while little effort was e...
