Stamp Out Emily Murphy (racist, prohibitionist) Campaign

[KanMan]

Stamp Out Emily Murphy Campaign

The very nasty side of Emily Murphy is she promoted racism, prohibition and sterilization in Canada!

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I am not proud to say there is a statue of Emily Murphy in Calgary Olympic Plaza!

Although she did help get the vote for women her hate filled racism over shadows the one good thing she did.

Keith
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Calgary 420 Cannabis Community
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[DdC]

I'll tack on your stuff when I post this elsewhere...
DdC

Reefer Madness: The Sequel By Julian Beltrame
FoM Source: Maclean's Magazine July 30, 2001

Mily Murphy was the first to sound the alarm. In 1922, the Edmonton magistrate and suffragette was railing against the scourge of drugs. Her sensationalist best-selling book, The Black Candle, let loose on the evils of such substances as opium, heroin and "marahuana." Few Canadians had heard of marijuana at the time, fewer still had tried it.

Murphy, already famous and popular for her "Janey Canuck" books of personal observations, made certain their initial impression would be indelible. Smokers, she quoted a police chief as saying, "become raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence."

Once addicted, she added, there were only three ways out -- "insanity . . . death . . . abandonment".
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"Although there was no evidence of a problem of marijuana use in Canada in 1923, its inclusion in the Opium and Drug Act may have been influenced by the writings of Emily Murphy, a crusading Edmonton, Alberta, magistrate. In 1920, she published a series of sensational and racist articles in Maclean's magazine on the horrible effects of drug use and the deliberate debauching of the young by evil, often alien, traffickers. The articles were later expanded into a book, The Black Candle,published in 1922."

Reefer Madness Redux By William Johnson
FoM Source: Globe & Mail August 02, 2000

The three judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal showed the wisdom of Daniel on Monday when they unanimously struck down as unconstitutional the law making the possession of marijuana a crime. They declared it unjust and unacceptable in a free and democratic society. It continues to be operative for 12 months so as to avoid a legislative vacuum, but the judgment will have far-reaching consequences beyond the issue of marijuana-as-medicine, on which the decision was based.

The judges have invited the government to rewrite the law. They've given our society an opportunity to rethink a blanket prohibition against marijuana that was first imposed in 1923 from ignorance and superstition.
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EMILY'S PARADOX

"The [marihuana] addict loses all sense of moral responsibility. Addicts to this drug, while under the influence, are immune to pain, and could be severely injured without having any realization to their condition. While in this condition they becoming [sic] raving maniacs and are liable to kill or indulge in any form of violence to other persons, using the most savage methods of cruelty without, as said before, any sense of moral responsibility."

For Emily, erroneous statements such as this were a logical progression to or from, " We naturally classify these traitors (Chinese) as men of fishy blood who might easily be guilty of any enormity no matter how villainous. We execrate [loathe intensely] them and take upon ourselves a kind of depart-ye-cursed attitude".
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"Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him...."

"Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days -- Hashish goads users to bloodlust."

"Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug."

"Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim's life in Los Angeles?... THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES -- that is a matter of cold record."
-- William Randolph Hearst - Newspaper Tycoon (1936)

Shadow of the Swastika

Hearst’s Disinformation



"Reefer madness was running a little high in the 20s and 30s"

There wasn't any 'reefer madness'. It was all a ploy by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.

The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source of pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland, and investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be worth much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as the equipment was developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into pulp and fiber for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in his newspaper and magazine publications.

Emily Murphy picked up William Randolph Hearst's propaganda, published excerpts of it in McClean's Magazine under the pen name Janey Canuk, wrote the book 'The Black Candle' and these same lies about 'Reefer Madness' became the basis for marijuana prohibition in both Canada and the United States.
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"Persons using this narcotic [marijuana] smoke the dried leaves of the plant, which has the effect of driving them completely insane. The addict loses all sense of moral responsibility. Addicts to this drug, while under its influence, are immune to pain, and could be injured without having any realization of their condition."
Emily Murphy - Canadian Prohibitionist (1923)

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[Brother Adam]

Good to see ya Ddc.
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

[Brother Adam]

Good to see ya Ddc.
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-Brother Adam (we are all one family)

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.