CRAZED BY A DRUG.
SIX PERSONS KILLED. TRAGEDY IN A HOSPITAL* (Receiver! 5.5 p.m.) Kcutnr . VANCOUVER. Feb. 21. A messages from Guaymas, in Mexico, states that, crawd- from smoking marihuana, Itiador Valio ran amok in a hospital, and with a butcher's knife killed six persons before ho was subdued. Bo , stabbed the hospital cook and an at , tondant and four patients. This i s the second case of a marihuana j addict running amok here, and the | police are redoubling their efforts to j stop the traffic in the drug. Marihuana is a narcotic plant reputed to cause insanity in persons drinking an ; infusion of its leaves or smoking them. ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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