POT LAWS BASED ON RACIST LIES

Editor:

Re: "Woman with marijuana prescription arrested for drug possession."

I am puzzled about the eagerness of the state of Wyoming to enforce
marijuana laws based on racist lies:

"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step
on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice." (Hearst
newspapers nationwide, 1934)

"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are
Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music,
jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana can cause
white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and
any others."

"... the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the
degenerate races"

- - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger,
1930

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity,
criminality and death."

"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of
mankind."

"[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania,
probably to kill his brother." (see U.S. Government Propaganda To
Outlaw Marijuana -- http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t3.htm)

Unless Assistant District Attorney Randy Carnahan has made up some new
lie to justify throwing people into prison for using marijuana, all of
his excuses are absurd, outrageous fictions.

RALPH GIVENS, Dale City, Calif.