reefer madness / anti-medical marijuana

THE REEFER MADNESS ERA BOOKS

Their role in the Anti-Medical Marihuana Laws

The marijuana Mob
The main objective of any dis-information campaign is to shape and than control public opinion. In the case of the Reefer Madness campaign, this would mean imprinting the impression that only criminals, sex trade workers and low class people would ever use Medical Marihuana etc. And given how well orchestrated the dis-information campaign was conducted. I for one feel that such an useful medium (or even an un-useful medium) would NOT have been ignored by them.

The same (successfully used) tactics used by them to control other forms of media were also applied the pulp novels.

Technical and logistical support was provided only to pro-Reefer Madness authors and publishers.
Every action was taken to create the image that there was only one side to the issue.
Never debate the subject; work only with those that fully support the anti-Medical Marihuana laws.

And the tactics worked and worked very well. To this very day, many still believe that "one puff of a Medical Marihuana cigarette will automatically lead to a life of degradation, addiction and depravity. However, we would be fooling ourselves if we thought the evil hand of the drug police was everywhere. Unlike magazine editors, no evidence exists of government coercion of any pulp fiction writers or their publishers. But as these covers show, none was needed, many a publisher was in it solely for the money. And soon they had writers jumping over each other to see who could write the most outrageous story lines. As for the true, it was boring and probably wouldn't have sold anyway. Reefer Madness simply made for more fun and money.

Historically speaking, no doubt some of the authors actually believed their own works, but many others were simply in it for the money -- and let the truth be damned. Of such was the stuff of the Reefer Madness campaign.