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I hate jazz music and the narcotic called 'loco-weed'. So I told a little fib to save our nation.
Welcome to the tragic story of Fred Vinson. Many of you have no idea
who he was, or what role he played in marijuana prohibition. That’s
our job here at MPIU. So this is his story. We’ll save the cursing for the end.
He grew up in Kentucky, the son of a jailer. He must have wanted to
go into the family business of incarcerating people because his fraud
created millions of new customers for our privatized prison system.
He became a congressman. During the New Deal, Mr. Vinson sat on the influential Ways and Means Committee.
After the Supreme Court gave their stamp of approval on the Tommy Gun
Tax Act in 1937, the Marijuana Tax Act was submitted to the Ways and
Means Committee. This permitted it to avoid being discussed by the FDA.
During the hearings on the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act, Mr. Vinson questioned the AMA’s representative, Dr. Woodward.
Dr. William C. Woodward was both a doctor and a lawyer. And if that
was not enough, he was the first marijuana activist. He went toe-to-toe
with the Ways and Means Committee. Fred Vinson and he got heated.
They exchanged MANY questions.
here's where lies become law
Here’s a transcript from the congressional record:
Mr. Vinson: How long has it been that the
american medical Association has been critical of the Federal
Government in the matter of enacting legislation looking toward the
control of the marihuana habit?
Dr. Woodward: It is not a habit that is
connected with the medical profession and the medical profession knows
very little of it.
Mr. Vinson: I did not ask you that, doctor.
Dr. Woodward: It arises outside of the
medical profession, and the American Medical Association has no more
evidence concerning it or the extent of the marihuana habit than this
committee has.
Mr. Vinson: My question was this. has the
American Medical Association taken cognizance of the marihuana habit
and the need for its control?
Dr. Woodward: Only in connection with the development of a uniform State narcotics act.
Mr. Vinson: Let us see, doctor—-
Dr. Woodward: I spent 5 years in
connection with the national conference of commissioners on Uniform
State Laws, in drafting that act, and there you will find a reference to
Cannabis. That reference is based on a thorough study of the Cannabis
situation at that time. The National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws, cooperating with the American Medical Association
and with the Bureau of Narcotics and the American Pharmaceutical
Association and other agencies, could not then find evidence that would
lead it to incorporate in the model act a provision with respect to
marihuana or Cannabis.
Mr. Vinson: When was that?
Dr. Woodward: What it did, however, was
to frame provisions that might be incorporated in the act by anyone who
was interested in regulation.
Mr. Vinson:When was that study, when did that occur?
Dr. Woodward: That must have occurred– I do not believe I have a copy of it here.
Mr. vinson: Approximately?
Dr. Woodward: Five years ago.
Mr. vinson: I hand you here an editorial
which I asked you to file. It seems to be the first editorial in the
issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association dated Saturday,
January 23, 1937, and it is headed Opium Traffic in the United States.
I take it that someone connected with the American Medical Association wrote that editorial.
Dr. Woodward: I assume that is correct.
Mr. Vinson: Do you know who did it?
Dr. Woodward: I do not know.
Mr.Vinson: Well, I want to read from the editorial a quotation that you did not call our attention to.
Closely allied with the opium
traffic is the present situation with regard to Indian hemp, or
marihuana. There is as yet no Federal legislation penalizing traffic in
this drug, and Federal efforts are at present largely confined to
restriction of imports and cooperation with those States or local bodies
which have effective regulations.
It just seems to me that that is
something of a criticism that the Federal Government has as yet passed
no legislation penalizing the traffic in this drug.
Dr. Woodward: Mr. Vinson, if you will
read that as a whole, you will find that it is substantially a review of
a report made by the Commissioner (Anslinger) of Narcotics, and mirrors
in its statement of the facts and opinions, the facts and opinions that
were embodied in his report.
Cite: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/woodward.htm
Despite Fred Vinson clearly knowing what the opinion of the AMA was
on the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, Mr. Vinson LIED while on the floor on
Congress to other Congressmen to influence their vote!
Marijuana
was not well known back in 1937. The law against it was passed with
very, very little understanding on it. None of the congressmen had read
it. Not even the Speaker of the House seemed to know what the Bill was
about.
One of the few Republicans in the hall stood up and asked, “Mr. Speaker, what’s this bill about?”
Speaker Rayburn replied, “I don’t know. It has something to do with a thing called marihuana. I think it’s a narcotic of some kind.”
So the Republican congressman shot back with, “What does the AMA think about this bill?”
A little note: Roosevelt had just got elected in a huge landslide.
–Think the opposite of 2010 or 1994 with the Republicans– The AMA had
opposed EVERY piece of legislation the Democrats wanted since 1931.
What happened next was probably due to the 100 degree heat in the hall
of Congress.
The exchange of Mr. Vinson and Dr. Woodword excerpted above happened
on May 4, 1937. On August 20th of that year, the law came before
Congress to be voted on. It was 5:45 p.m. on a friday in the hot D.C.
summer –before air-conditioning.
Right after the Republican asked Speaker Rayburn what the AMA thought about the law, Fred Vinson shot out of his seat and said:
“Their Doctor Wentworth came down here. They support this bill 100 percent.”
That’s all folks!
With this one lie, the possession of ANY part of the hemp plant
became a federal crime. It killed the young hemp industry. It created
millions of criminals. It cost America literally trillions of dollars.
So what did Mr. Vinson get for all this? Did he return to Kentucky
to brag about sending their hemp crop underground? (Hemp is still the number 1 cash crop in Kentucky)
No, he didn’t go home. He stayed in Washington D.C. He became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. No shit.
In 1953 he died of heart-attack.
After his death there was no one left to stand in the way of
segregation and the Brown v. Board of Education case, which Mr. VInson
had been blocking, was handed down in 1954.
Thank you, Fred Vinson. A racist, lying, Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Please kiss the movement’s ass.
With facts like this, all I can ask is, “Marijuana’s still illegal, why?”
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