Assassin of Youth
WHO WAS THE REV. ROBERT DEVINE
The following is taken from what is probably Roberts Divines most famous work, "Marihuana the Assassin of Youth."
The dealer knows that when he has gained a customer from the ranks of high school or grammar school students, he has usually gained a customer for life. . . . I have received from Mr. Harry Anslinger, Federal Commissioner of Narcotics, Washington, up-to-the-minute lists of crimes committed by marihuana users. They include the most brutal, the most fiendish, the most horrible crimes listed in the records of the F. B. I. So much is this so, that the weed has become known to the G-Men as "The Killer Drug". Among its many names is one which bears out this evil reputation. . . An ordinary man or woman will become, in the eyes of the marihuana addict, beautiful beyond compare. Sexual desire flames into fires of passion, undeniable, uncontrollable. The most debasing per-versions are invited and practiced. This is true whether the users of the drug are school children meeting in basement rooms, or college youths in groups within or outside of the campus; or whether it be prison inmates who have secured quantities of the drug through trusties. Marihuana has been grown on prison farms by trustees, unknown to the officials, and taken in to the inmates. When it is realized that under its influence inmates fall desperately in love with each other, just as they would with members of the opposite sex outside prison walls, one can understand the debaucheries which take place within such institutions.