These 1930’s era articles about pot always make it sound like they’re talking about PCP or something. I have never seen anyone who smoked pot go into a “delirious rage” causing them to commit murder. According to this article whenever anyone got killed, the police would go looking for pot-heads to blame it on. Of everything in the article that’s what would scare me. Smoke pot and the cops will frame you for murder.
I also think it’s odd that in all of these articles the authors never mention that pot gives you the munchies. I bet that if you asked a hundred people to name an effect of marijuana at least half would say it makes them hungry. Granted “Local teen empties fridge on pot fueled rampage, will cupboards be next? ” doesn’t make the scariest headline.


Uncle Sam Fights a New Drug Menace…Marijuana
How an Innocent-Looking Plant, a Roadside Weed In Many States, Presents A Grave Narcotic Problem
By William Wolf
ONE DAY last summer, a squad of men suddenly descended upon a vacant lot in a large eastern city. Attacking a patch of innocent-looking weeds, they first burned the stalks down to the ground and then spread chemicals to make sure that every vestige of life in the roots was destroyed.
The weed was marijuana—better known as Indian hemp—and within that one vacant lot there was enough, if converted into cigarettes or “reefers” and peddled through underground channels, to be the potential cause of half a dozen murders and other brutal crimes.
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Wow, that’s a new one. Use Eveready batteries or you will poison your child!
“I POURED A DEATH POTION FOR MY SICK BABY!”
LONG ISLAND MOTHER LIVES A NIGHTMARE IN DARKENED HOME
1. “Our year old son was seriously ill with whooping cough, my husband was down with the grippe … and to add to my problems I blew the electric fuses as I was going to bed,” writes Mrs. Camille Dearkin of 222-09 135th Avenue, Springfield Gardens, L. I.
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You’d think that if their owners were really so swinging they could think of something better to do at the beach than watch TV…
TV Goes Out
A GROWING demand for TV sets that, like their swinging owners, go-go anywhere has led Exide to produce the Personal Power Pack. The unit contains a lead/acid storage battery and a charger. The output is 12 volts DC. The new carry-around TV sets being offered by Philco, Sony, Panasonic and others operate on either 117 volts AC or 12 volts DC. A home-type portable that operates on AC only also can be powered by Exide pack if an inverter (costing about $60) is put between pack and set to change the DC to 117 volts AC. Exide now is working on a pack that will include an inverter. One charge runs a small TV set about eight hours; battery life is put at 1,000 hours. The price is $39.95.