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Stylish Analysis. With an editorial budget that has doubled to $8,000,000 over the past six years, the Washington bureau staff has been increased from two to twelve, the foreign bureaus from three to 15. Full-time reporters have been put to work in the arts, science and medicine. Today the Times carries more news and advertising than any other U.S. paper, and its 839,000 circulation is the nation's third largest-after the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune...
Probably, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Timothy F. Leary are looking forward with equal anticipation to Leary's upcoming appeal of his recent conviction for "transporting and failing to pay tax on" less than half an ounce of marihuana. The Bureau will welcome a test case because it believes the drug to be an unequivocal menace and resents propaganda to the contrary. Leary will be happy to have at last a national forum in order to preach to all his Less-Harmful-Than-Alcohol doctrine about the very same stuff...
...weed of madness" roused the public to indignation over murders, rapes, infanticides, and all manner of heinous crimes supposedly committed under its influence. The most significant outcome of the resulting hysteria over the Marihuana Menace was the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which empowered the Treasure Department and its Bureau of Narcotics to control traffic in Cannabis...
Ever since, the Bureau has treated marihuana as harshly as the opiates and contain, shouting down all opposition to its contentions that the drug 1) cause addition, 2)leads to violence, criminal acts and insanity, and 3)induces users to move up to heroin...
...explanation really executes the Narcotics Bureau and its long time (1930-1962) Commissioner H. J. Anslinger for their impassioned dissemination of misinformation about Cannabis. Pharmacologsts have long known that marihuana is not addicting. Psychologists have long known that it does not invite to violence. Sociologists have long suspected that within given social classes, crime rates are the same for marihuana-users and non-users. Yet even today, the Bureau will happily shower the inquisitive with rabid little pamphlets documenting crimes, horrible withdrawal-symptoms, and even cases of "brain-rot" induced by marihuana...