Why Is Marijuana Illegal How The 1933 Ybor City Ax Murders Bolstered But before "reefer madness" and before the 1937 marihuana tax act and before the 1970 controlled substances act, the gruesome 1933 ax murders of five family members in their ybor city home helped set the stage for the federal criminalization of all cannabinoids in the u.s. In 1933, victor licata murdered his parents and three siblings with an ax in their ybor city home. it was initially — and incorrectly — thought that he did so because he was in a marijuana.
Why Is Marijuana Illegal How The 1933 Ybor City Ax Murders Bolstered How an axe murderer helped make weed illegal. when the head of the federal bureau of narcotics heard about the licata case, he knew it was the break he'd been waiting for. history. cannabis. prohibition. war on drugs. laura smith. tampa police arrived at the licata residence one afternoon in october 1933. neighbors in the tightly knit immigrant. Victor licata (c. 1912 – december 4, 1950), also known as the dream slayer, [1] was an american mass murderer who used an axe to kill his family in ybor city, tampa, florida, on october 16, 1933. the killings, which were reported by the media as the work of an "axe murdering marijuana addict", were adduced as prima facie evidence that there. Kurt schleicher looks over one of several liquor bottles found in the attic of his home in ybor city. in 1933, victor lacata killed his parents and siblings there with an axe, but schleicher. October 6, 1933, was a typical afternoon in the ybor city, a tampa neighborhood, until neighbors noticed that they had not seen a single member of the licata family all day. officers would soon uncover one of the world's worst ax murderers of all time.
Why Is Marijuana Illegal How The 1933 Ybor City Ax Murders Bolstered Kurt schleicher looks over one of several liquor bottles found in the attic of his home in ybor city. in 1933, victor lacata killed his parents and siblings there with an axe, but schleicher. October 6, 1933, was a typical afternoon in the ybor city, a tampa neighborhood, until neighbors noticed that they had not seen a single member of the licata family all day. officers would soon uncover one of the world's worst ax murderers of all time. I tried to conduct an in depth investigation into the 1933 florida ax murders committed by victor licata. i used the most authorative source, bibliography notes in john kaplan's book, "marijuana, the new prohibition" for information on debunking this case. when i attempted to order the cited articles in kaplan book, using several florida inter. The slaughter of five members of the michael licata family at their ybor city home early tuesday brought to 19 the number of deaths charged to two tampa axmen in the last seven years. victor licata, 21, marijuana addict, killed five his parents, two brothers and a sister. benjamin franklin levins, 40, dope fiend, slaughtered nine. five others.
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