As this long-held story goes, Dr. James C. Munch — an expert adviser on marijuana for the U.S. government — once testified in court that smoking weed made him think he was a bat. We investigated the legitimacy of the tale. 👇
Dr. James C. Munch, an expert adviser on marijuana for the U.S. government, once testified in court that marijuana had turned him into a bat.James Munch was a toxicologist who served as an advisor to the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics on marijuana issues, though he was not"the official expert" for the federal government, as claimed in some sources. He was also an expert witness at murder trials involving defendants who committed crimes while high on marijuana.
In the most famous of these trials, what happened was two women jumped on a Newark, New Jersey bus and shot and killed and robbed the bus driver. They put on the marijuana insanity defense. He wasn't done yet. He testified that he flew around the room for fifteen minutes and then found himself at the bottom of a two-hundred-foot high inkwell. Well, friends, that sells a lot of papers. What do you think the Newark Star Ledger headline [was] the next day, October 12, 1938?"Killer Drug Turns Doctor to Bat!"in the 2007 book Cannabis: A History, by Martin Booth.
an association with this group in some form until the 1960s. In this sense, it is fair to say he was considered a government expert on marijuana during this time.over marijuana leading to violence and crime rose in prominence.
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