Crazed From Smoking a Weed
Crazy article from 1905 that Interestingly gives credit to ‘indian women’ for growing cannabis in North America…
“Marihuana is a weed used in Mexico by people of the lower class and sometimes by soldiers, but those who make larger use of it are prisoners sentenced to long terms. The use of the weed and its sale, especially in barracks and prisons, are very severely punished, yet it has many adepts, and Indian women cultivate it because they sell it at rather high prices.
The dry leaves of marihuana, alone or mixed with tobacco, make the smoker wilder than a wild beast. It is said that immediately after the first three or four drafts of smoke smokers begin to feel a slight headache. Then they see everything moving, and finally they lose all control of their mental faculties. Everything, the smokers say, takes the shape of a monster, and men look like devils. They begin to fight, and of course everything smashed is a monster “killed”. But there are imaginary beings whom the wild men cannot kill, and these inspire fear until the man is panic stricken and runs.
Not long ago a man who had smoked a marihuana cigarette attacked and killed a policeman and badly wounded three other officers. Six policemen were needed to disarm him and march him to the police station, where he had to be put into a straitjacket.”
– The Florida star, May 19, 1905
The Florida star, May 19, 1905
