A tragicomedy featuring the US Treasury Department, industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. Continued from last week’s AVA.
JENKINS: It seems to me your only burden is to prove, chemically, that this is a narcotic.
HESTER: We have to show that it is a drug.
JENKINS: If you show that, you have no question as to its being constitutional?
HESTER: That is right.
McCORMACK: In other words, it is a straight tax bill?
HESTER: That is right.
McCORMACK: And the other testimony you will introduce as to the character of this drug and its effect upon human beings is to justify what appears to be a high tax.
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