cies inherent in marijuana is Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's Marihuana in Latin America:
The Threat It Constitutes.
22] Although this opus was published over two decades ago, it
is still cited with approval by the antimarijuana propagandists. Rather than a study, it is
another enumeration of crimes supposedly caused by marijuana, along with extravagant
declarations as to marijuana's baleful effect: "With every reason, marihuana... has been
closely associated since the most remote time with insanity, with crime, with violence,
and with brutality.
" Again, one searches in vain for a systematic analysis of the
criminogenic effect of this supposedly deadly drug. Instead, we are greeted with a barrage
of rumor, distortions, blatant falsehoods, and dogmatic assertions. Although we have been
assured by Anslinger in the foreword that the author is "impartial," and the monograph,
"painstaking... erudite, well-documented ... comprehensive.
.
.
accurate... extensive... wellrounded
... convincing," we are perplexed by the bombastic and otiose language which
casts considerable doubt on its author as a reliable, impartial observer. We are assured that
"this weed... changes thousands of persons into nothing more than human scum," and that
"this vice... should be suppressed at any cost." Marijuana is labeled "weed of the brutal
crime and of the burning hell," an "exterminating demon which is now attacking our
country"; users are referred to as "addicts" (passim) whose "motive belongs to a strain
which is pure viciousness."23]
Wolff's work should be considered a relic of a benighted age, but it is taken seriously
today by those who require confirmation of the dangers of this drug, as well as for the fact
that this slim volume has provided a fertile seedbed of concepts, ideas, and distinctions
which are very much alive today. Although it will be the job of later intellectual historians
to trace the elaborate interconnections and influences of today's drug ideologists, both pro
and con, many antecedents (on the contra side) may be discerned in Pablo Osvaldo Wolff;
some may not have originated with him, but he gave them all propulsion. For instance,
this work is very clear on the distinction between "an addiction in the classic sense of
morphinism" and what Wolff (and physicians today) call "psychic addiction," or
"habituation."24] Needless to say, this distinction is crucial in today's medical writings;
the similarity between the two use-syndromes is emphasized rather than their differences.
(See the chapter on the physician's point of view toward marijuana for an elaboration of
this distinction.) Second, Wolff distinctly presaged another dominant current theme:
... the use of marihuana is always an abuse and a vice in the strictest sense
of the word. So far as this drug is concerned, there is no medical indication
whatsoever that will justify its use in the present day and age.... at the
present time there is no scientific therapeutic indiccies inherent in marijuana is Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's Marihuana in Latin America:
The Threat It Constitutes.22] Although this opus was published over two decades ago, it
is still cited with approval by the antimarijuana propagandists. Rather than a study, it is
another enumeration of crimes supposedly caused by marijuana, along with extravagant
declarations as to marijuana's baleful effect: "With every reason, marihuana.
.
.
has been
closely associated since the most remote time with insanity, with crime, with violence,
and with brutality." Again, one searches in vain for a systematic analysis of the
criminogenic effect of this supposedly deadly drug. Instead, we are greeted with a barrage
of rumor, distortions, blatant falsehoods, and dogmatic assertions. Although we have been
assured by Anslinger in the foreword that the author is "impartial," and the monograph,
"painstaking... erudite, well-documented ... comprehensive... accurate.
.
.
extensive.
.
.
wellrounded
.
.
.
convincing," we are perplexed by the bombastic and otiose language which
casts considerable doubt on its author as a reliable, impartial observer.
We are assured that
"this weed... changes thousands of persons into nothing more than human scum," and that
"this vice.
.
.
should be suppressed at any cost." Marijuana is labeled "weed of the brutal
crime and of the burning hell," an "exterminating demon which is now attacking our
country"; users are referred to as "addicts" (passim) whose "motive belongs to a strain
which is pure viciousness."23]
Wolff's work should be considered a relic of a benighted age, but it is taken seriously
today by those who require confirmation of the dangers of this drug, as well as for the fact
that this slim volume has provided a fertile seedbed of concepts, ideas, and distinctions
which are very much alive today. Although it will be the job of later intellectual historians
to trace the elaborate interconnections and influences of today's drug ideologists, both pro
and con, many antecedents (on the contra side) may be discerned in Pablo Osvaldo Wolff;
some may not have originated with him, but he gave them all propulsion. For instance,
this work is very clear on the distinction between "an addiction in the classic sense of
morphinism" and what Wolff (and physicians today) call "psychic addiction," or
"habituation."24] Needless to say, this distinction is crucial in today's medical writings;
the similarity between the two use-syndromes is emphasized rather than their differences.
(See the chapter on the physician's point of view toward marijuana for an elaboration of
this distinction.) Second, Wolff distinctly presaged another dominant current theme:
... the use of marihuana is always an abuse and a vice in the strictest sense
of the word. So far as this drug is concerned, there is no medical indication
whatsoever that will justify its use in the present day and age.... at the
present time there is no scientific therapeutic indiccies inherent in marijuana is Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's Marihuana in Latin America:
The Threat It Constitutes.[22 Although this opus was published over two decades ago, it
is still cited with approval by the antimarijuana propagandists. Rather than a study, it is
another enumeration of crimes supposedly caused by marijuana, along with extravagant
declarations as to marijuana's baleful effect: "With every reason, marihuana... has been
closely associated since the most remote time with insanity, with crime, with violence,
and with brutality." Again, one searches in vain for a systematic analysis of the
criminogenic effect of this supposedly deadly drug. Instead, we are greeted with a barrage
of rumor, distortions, blatant falsehoods, and dogmatic assertions. Although we have been
assured by Anslinger in the foreword that the author is "impartial," and the monograph,
"painstaking... erudite, well-documented ... comprehensive.
.
.
accurate... extensive... wellrounded
... convincing," we are perplexed by the bombastic and otiose language which
casts considerable doubt on its author as a reliable, impartial observer. We are assured that
"this weed... changes thousands of persons into nothing more than human scum," and that
"this vice... should be suppressed at any cost.
" Marijuana is labeled "weed of the brutal
crime and of the burning hell," an "exterminating demon which is now attacking our
country"; users are referred to as "addicts" (passim) whose "motive belongs to a strain
which is pure viciousness."23
Wolff's work should be considered a relic of a benighted age, but it is taken seriously
today by those who require confirmation of the dangers of this drug, as well as for the fact
that this slim volume has provided a fertile seedbed of concepts, ideas, and distinctions
which are very much alive today. Although it will be the job of later intellectual historians
to trace the elaborate interconnections and influences of today's drug ideologists, both pro
and con, many antecedents (on the contra side) may be discerned in Pablo Osvaldo Wolff;
some may not have originated with him, but he
Buy Cannabis Seeds gave them all propulsion. For instance,
this work is very clear on the distinction between "an addiction in the classic sense of
morphinism" and what Wolff (and physicians today) call "psychic addiction," or
"habituation.
"24 Needless to say, this distinction is crucial in today's medical writings;
the similarity between the two use-syndromes is emphasized rather than their differences.
(See the chapter on the physician's point of view toward marijuana for an elaboration of
this distinction.) Second, Wolff distinctly presaged another dominant current theme:
... the use of marihuana is always an abuse and a vice in the strictest sense
of the word. So far as this drug is concerned, there is no medical indication
whatsoever that will justify its use in the present day and age.
.
.
.
at the
present time there is no scientific therapeutic indiccies inherent in marijuana is Pablo Osvaldo Wolff's Marihuana in Latin America:
The Threat It Constitutes.22 Although this opus was published over two decades ago, it
is still cited with approval by the antimarijuana propagandists. Rather than a study, it is
another enumeration of crimes supposedly caused by marijuana, along with extravagant
declarations as to marijuana's baleful effect: "With every reason, marihuana... has been
closely associated since the most remote time with insanity, with crime, with violence,
and with brutality." Again, one searches in vain for a systematic analysis of the
criminogenic effect of this supposedly deadly drug. Instead, we are greeted with a barrage
of rumor, distortions, blatant falsehoods, and dogmatic assertions. Although we have been
assured by Anslinger in the foreword that the author is "impartial," and the monograph,
"painstaking... erudite, well-documented ... comprehensive... accurate... extensive... wellrounded
... convincing," we are perplexed by the bombastic and otiose language which
casts considerable doubt on its author as a reliable, impartial observer.
We are assured that
"this weed... changes thousands of persons into nothing more than human scum," and that
"this vice... should be suppressed at any cost." Marijuana is labeled "weed of the brutal
crime and of the burning hell," an "exterminating demon which is now attacking our
country"; users are referred to as "addicts" (passim) whose "motive belongs to a strain
which is pure viciousness.
"23
Wolff's work should be considered a relic of a benighted age, but it is taken seriously
today by those who require confirmation of the dangers of this drug, as well as for the fact
that this slim volume has provided a fertile seedbed of concepts, ideas, and distinctions
which are very much alive today. Although it will be the job of later intellectual historians
to trace the elaborate interconnections and influences of today's drug ideologists, both pro
and con, many antecedents (on the contra side) may be discerned in Pablo Osvaldo Wolff;
some may not have originated with him, but he gave them all propulsion. For instance,
this work is very clear on the distinction between "an addiction in the classic sense of
morphinism" and what Wolff (and physicians today) call "psychic addiction," or
"habituation."24 Needless to say, this distinction is crucial in today's medical writings;
the similarity between the two use-syndromes is emphasized rather than their differences.
(See the chapter on the physician's point of view toward marijuana for an elaboration of
this distinction.) Second, Wolff distinctly presaged another dominant current theme:
... the use of marihuana is always an abuse and a vice in the strictest sense
of the word. So far as this drug is concerned, there is no medical indication
whatsoever that will justify its use in the present day and age.... at the
present time there is no scientific therapeutic indic