Talk:William Randolph Hearst/Archives/2014

The war on marijuana

This article used to have a section called War on Marijuana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst#War_on_marijuana This link is widely spread on the internet. Why was this section and all reference to marijuana removed? Robin.lemstra (talk) 16:02, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Herer is not the only source for this. It's mentioned in:

• The marihuana conviction: a history of marihuana prohibition in the United States by Richard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread University Press of Virginia, 1974.

  <ref>{{cite web|title=The Marihuana Consensus: A History of American Marihuana Prohibition|author=Charles H. Whitebread and Richard J. Bonnie|publisher=University of Virginia Law School|year=1972|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FrNrAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=hearst}}</ref>

In this source it discusses how Hearst paper chain was crucial in getting the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act support built up for it's passage and it provides another source where a 1937 conference on narcotics with judges, lawyers and civic leaders in attendance commend Hearst and his papers for "pioneering the national fight against dope<25>"

• NAFTA & Neocolonialism: Comparative Criminal, Human & Social Justice By Laurence French, Magdaleno Manzanárez

  <ref name="nafta-neocolonialism-129">{{Cite book|last1=French|first1=Laurence|first2=Magdaleno|last2=Manzanárez|title=NAFTA & neocolonialism: comparative criminal, human & social justice|publisher=University Press of America|year=2004|page=129|isbn=978-0-7618-2890-7|url=http://books.google.com/?id=4ozF1Yg-c4MC&pg=PA129}}</ref>

This non-Herer source where they also describe an alliance of DuPont family, Mellon and Hearst supporting the Reefer Madness narrative being portrayed in the media to protect their financial interests. If in hindsight, we now see they were not really threatened that is not the same as their perception of a threat in the 1930's.

The Whitehead and Bonnie source is unequivocal on it's point that Hearst chain of papers were a solid ally and given praise in it's anti-dope message by leaders of the time and this should be added to the article. Any editor that is working on this page and the Legal history of cannabis in the United States knows of these sources. Alatari (talk) 12:07, 3 February 2014 (UTC)