Wage Campaign on “Indian Hemp”
Las Animas, Colorado, Dec. 22
Vigorous measures to stamp out production of “Indian Hemp” are being taken by Bent County officials following the discovery here of several gardens in which the plant was being cultivated.
The Plant is known botanically as Cannabis Sativa, and when matured its large brown leaves are smoked with a result similar, it is said, to that of opium.
Many Mexicans in the Arkansas valley are reported to have been made insane from smoking “Indian Hemp”, and an extensive traffic in the “loco weed” has been going on in some sections of Colorado.
State laws provide heavy penalties for persons convicted of propagating “Indian Hemp”.
– Capital journal, December 22, 1921
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Capital journal, December 22, 1921
