MARIJUANA PROPAGANDA HAS BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES

Dear Editor,

I wonder if the citizens of Santa Clara County realize that the
marijuana laws they seek to enforce are based on absurd racist lies
and tall tales about ultra violence that never happened.

- - "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." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger

- - " ... 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." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Director Harry J. Anslinger, 1937

- - "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of
mankind." - Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger

- - "(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 )

Whenever anyone is punished for a "marijuana crime," the case is
founded on pure perjury because there is zero evidence that marijuana
use has ever harmed anyone. The fact that city councils and police
eagerly seek to enact more and more cannabis prohibition laws shows
the depth of the racist corruption and pure injustice embedded in
their rotten souls. When they stand against medical use of marijuana,
they double their perfidy.

Why do you allow Police Chief David Swing to claim that: "(there will
be) a significant rise in crime, and high costs for enforcement and
prevention if medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed in Morgan
Hill" when the truth is that people going to banks face more than
twice the risk of being involved in a violent crime than someone in a
marijuana dispensary.

The facts speak against Chief Swing's assertions because Los Angeles
Police Chief Charlie Beck debunked those claims when he said, "Banks
are more likely to get robbed than medical marijuana dispensaries."
In 2009, the LAPD received reports of 71 robberies at the more than
350 banks in the city, compared to 47 robberies at medical marijuana
facilities which number at least 800. The plain truth is that people
face a much higher risk of injury going to their local bank than at a
marijuana dispensary.

Ralph Givens, Daly City