The cannabis in century XX (1)
The cannabis continued being the second used medicine more until 1901, being replaced then ones by the aspirin.
At the end of century in hashish production the great producers are Asian countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, etc.) and Muslim Mediterranean countries (Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, etc.).
The Asian varieties rare time arrive at Europe (the EE.UU. are turned aside to Australia or). Morocco are the world-wide giant that supplies to all Europe.
The number of regular consumers of hashish does not have to lower of 10 million more ten more of occasional consumers and all of them supplied by a country whose demand has been surpassed by its supply (the result is the degradation of the quality of the product).
Of the marijuana production the main producer is EE.UU that by means of technical outposts of culture (in open field and of interior) get to develop the best varieties of the world follow Mexico to him, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica, Thailand, Laos, etc.
In 1903 it was the first time that was used the marijuana in the EE.UU were on the part of the Mexicans of Brownsville, Texas.
In 1909 In the port of New Orleans, in the zone of TTStoreyvilleTT frequented by black sailors, much marijuana was smoked. The commissioner of the zone wrote that "the marijuana was the most vicious drug and frightful than arrived at New Orleans" (we see that it was against the culture of the black since the halls Hashish for targets well were seen).
The marijuana was the cause of the Mexican black depravation and; without her they would not dare so to being "insolent".
Thousand chicanos and black hundreds had to fulfill sentences that went from 10 days to 10 years jailed by crimes like these (incredible but certain):
- To watch a white woman twice
- To step on the shade of a white man
- Not to go in the back part of a vehicle
- To watch directly at the eyes of a target for more than three seconds
That same year in Italy a Vademecum is published in which the cannabis is recommended for the chest angina, bronchial and urémica asthma, gastroenterfticas atony, blenorragia, senile bronchial cold and chronic cold, rage, glaucoma, Korea, delirium tremens, insomnia, disentería, hemicránea, metrorragia, epilepsy, hysteria, impotence, hipercloridia, meningitis, protatitis, traumatic escrofulosa rinitis, tétanos, consumption, obstinate cough, gastric ulcer and until hidrofobia.
Not to depend on Egyptian, Turkish and Iranian suppliers Italy it cultivated cannabis, specially in Naples.
In 1910 the tycoon of the press Randolph Hearst, using the fortune of his father, tycoon of the mines, Hearst will buy the 1895 Morning Journal of New York, from which she will build the greater company of press of the world, that she has more than 800,000 land acres in Mexico are snatched him by the men of Pancho Villa.
Their newspapers begin to publish articles developing the theory that the Mexican black and become desperate beasts under the effects of the marijuana. Hearst tries to end the Mexican commerce of the marijuana.
Hearst used "marijuana" and hemp or cannabis so that their readers did not realize that what wanted to prohibit this personage was not one of the most valuable plants of our world. Their campaigns sensationalists influenced towards the prohibition of the hemp.
