DRUG PROPAGANDA?
<9> SONG IN A FILM USED IN IGNORANCE LONDON, December 1. “The song ‘Marijuana’ sung in a | Hollywood musical film is subtle propaganda for smoking hashish cigarettes. ’’ The Geneva correspondent of the “News-Chronicle” reports that this statement was made to the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations by Colonel Sharman, of Canada. He said that “Marijuana” was a word used for this type of cigarette. Mr Stuart Fuller (U.S.) said the word was probably used in ignorance. He described drug-traffickers’ wiles. Drugs, he said, were concealed in hollow heels, grindstones, saddles, Bibles, coffins and tombstones.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 284, 10 December 1934, Page 3
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