THE ANTIQUE CANNABIS BOOK Chapter 3 - (2nd Edition) CENSORED MEDICAL STUDIES

[L.A. Times – Aug 6, 1919 p9-VI] [America’s 1st Recorded Medical Cannabis Arrest][1]

Los Angeles Times - Aug 6, 1919 p9-VI [Due to poor quality typo-mistakes are possible] “OFFICERS OBJECT TO “DREAM WEED” CROP” MEXICAN MAID INSISTS SHE RAISED MARIJUANA FOR STOMACK TROUBLE SANTA ANA, July 5.---Estofina Diaz said she was raising marijuana for her stomach’s sake and she [must] have been laying up a long-time supply, for a dozen plants were found in her garden and two of the stalks were more than fourteen feet high.   All were cut down and confiscated and Estofina was arrested under the county ordinance making it a misdemeanor to have marijuana in one’s possession.   Her trial was set for July 9. Marijuana is the weed which is to a certain element of Mexicans what opium is to the Chinaman.   The leaves are dried and smoked. According to one of the arresting officers, “One puff makes a man’s hair curl up, the second puff makes his head go round, and after the third puff he’s a rarin, tearing’ wild man seeking whom he may cut up or shoot up.” Culture of the weed was lessened considerable after the county ordinance against it was adopted.   [So] that now the product is quite valuable, a small tobacco sack full bringing as much as $1.50. Estofina pleaded not guilty to the charge against her, declaring she was growing the plants for medicine, as she had been told tea from the leaves was good for stomach trouble.   Officers discredit the story.

“A boy seventeen years of age shot and killed a policeman in Los Angeles, California.   Inasmuch as the officer had been his best friend, the boy's action was difficult to understand until it was discovered that he was "high" on "reefers" when he committed the crime.” -- Moloch Of Marihuana (1945) Robert James Devine

“I am reminded of a Los Angeles case in which a boy of seventeen killed a policeman.   They had been great friends. Patrolling his beat, the officer often stopped to talk to the young fellow, to advise him.   But one day the boy surged toward the patrolman yellowish flame, and the officer fell dead.   “Why did you kill him?” the youth was asked.   “I don’t know,” he sobbed.   “He was good to me.   I was high on reefers.   Suddenly I decided to shoot him.” -- American Magazine “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth” By H.J Anslinger - July 1937

1. - We have examined each and every L.A.P.D. death on record (starting in 1900) up until July 1937, via websites and newspaper back issues, with no matches.
   
   
2. - We have examined numerous other police slaying, that occurred near the city of LA, as well as other law enforcement groups (example, Sheriffs Deputies), and again, no matches.
   
   
3. - We have contacted various governmental groups [LAPD, City of Los Angeles etc.], historical groups, including police memorial groups -- again nothing, no matches.