WARNING: What follows (below) was put up a long time ago: -- Here we are leaving it up for historical reasons.
Since that time, we have found out that much of it is false and misleading to say the least. At this time we now believe that Victor Licata was INNOCENT of the crimes that he was accused of --- that’s right innocent (such as, he didn’t kill anyone).
FOR MORE, PLEASE GO TO OUR MAIN WEBPAGE:
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-- From there scroll down until you see Victor's mug shot.
The following information was taken (ripped off actually) from the following website: http://www.ukcia.org
Anslinger's Lies
"There are 100,000 total
marijuana smokers in the US,
and most are Negroes, Hispanics,
Filipinos and entertainers.
Their Satanic music, jazz and swing,
result from marijuana usage.
This marijuana causes white women
to seek sexual relations
with Negroes, entertainers and any
others."
Harry J. Anslinger, testimony to Congress, 1937 |
Many of Harry Anslinger's
marijuana
horror stories have been tracked down to stories in the yellow
press. Of 200 specific cases referred to by Anslinger, his accusation
that marijuana was the cause of a gory crime was proved false in 198.
The other two stories were untraceable and no account of them ever
appeared in print
where the crimes allegedly occurred.
The most sensational crime in Anslinger's
"gore file" was the Victor Licata case. A young man got up one
morning and killed his parents, two brothers and a sister with an axe.
Harry Anslinger claimed marijuana was responsible for this horrific
crime because, he said, Licata "had been addicted to smoking marijuana
cigarettes for more than six months".
However, psychiatric
examination of Victor Licata told a different story. The examining
psychiatrist, Dr. H. Mason Smith, concluded that Licata's insanity was
probably hereditary. His
parents were first cousins and a granduncle and two paternal cousins had
been committed to insane asylums. Licata's younger brother - one of his
victims - had been diagnosed with dementia praecox.
Police had
tried to have Victor Licata committed almost a year before he butchered
his family, but withdrew the petition when the youth's parents insisted
they could take better care of him at home.
Licata's history
indicates that the cause of his crimes was a long lasting psychosis. At
the Florida State Mental Hospital, he was diagnosed as suffering dementia
praecox with homicidal tendencies, and he was observed to be overtly
psychotic. In the hospital, Licata killed another patient and finally
hanged himself.
Hospital records do not blame either Licata's
crimes or his lifelong mental illness on marijuana. In fact, marijuana is
never mentioned. Yet Anslinger misrepresented the Licata case for over 15
years in order to terrify the public about marijuana.
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To our knowledge, the following is the BEST (on the seen) report that was ever written on the subject.
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