Luis Martin S.J. Punishment for the 'drug war' cigarette market protection

Luis Martin was the 24th Superior General of the Jesuit Order, from 1892 to 1906, a period encompassing the 1904 start of the demonification of cocaine, that rapidly escalated following the 2nd time the Vatican gave a Papal medel award as a 'benefactor of humanity' to Coca product entrepeneur Angelo Francois Mariani (1838-1914)

Note that cocaine's demonification in the U.S. at the official level came through the USDA (Department of Agrilculture- charged with promoting US domestic agrilcultural commodities) via Harvey Washington Wiley, described in a letter to him in 1908 inviting him to a 'smoker for all of the knights.'

Wiley collaborated with Vatican loyalist William Randolph Hearst to popularize the 'drug war' scheme, resulting in food and drug laws requiring retail product labeling for ingrediants, in all consumables EXCEPT cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and cosmetics, while providing severe sentences for possessing Marijuana, Opium and Coca - with the sad result of prohibition's iron law of perverting the latter two into concentrated heroin and cocaine hci/sulfate.

Note that with regards to the plants used as stimulants -- aka Coffee, the various caffeine containing teas, Tobacco, Betal Nut and Coca Leaf, its has been stated: http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-leaf-stands-out-among-all.html

In each major category of intoxicant used by our species, there appear to be one or two drug plants that researchers have noted, are more controllable, hence safer, than all the other plants or synthetics in that category. Coca leaf stands out among all the stimulants, licit and illicit, as the easiest to control and the one least likely to produce toxicity or dependency.

This was by UCLA's Dr. Ronald K. Siegel was an expert wittness regarding the June 1986 fatal cocaine overdose of Len Bias that would be media hyped for an organized political reaction for a more punitive pharamacratic inquisition. The drug 'laws' -- statutes may be a better term as such 'laws' are not legitimate expressions of any commerce clause for protecting the general welfare but rather RICO-False Claims actionable conspriracy-racketeering for market protection, particularly for alcohol and that duet of cigarettes and pharama so indelibly conveyed by those many cigarette advertisements in medical journals conveying an organized medical professions's endorsement of cigarettes beseaking of an alliance of criminal mercantilism extending throughout government: a criminal mercantilism with extremely high costs from those of protecting the most dangerous from the most safe, and the latter's perversion, to that upon the 'law' enforcement and criminal 'justice' complex. Fear of market penetration by Coca at the expense of Tobacco figured strongly in USDA concerns 1908-1914: It was criminal mercantilism to protect Tobacco cigarettes http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-was-criminal-mercantilism-to-protect.html So did consciousnous of the reletive dangers to 'narcotics' constrolled substances' of Tobacco on th efloor of the US Congress during the very discussions upon the 1914 Harrison 'Narcotoc' Tax Act: 1914 US Congress: '10s of thousands who dies every year from the excessive use of cigarettes' http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/08/1914-tens-of-thousands-in-us-who-die.html There are numerous historical indications of Coca as a threat to Tobacco and alcoholism, such as this account by latter 1800s French Dr. Liberman and Villeneuve:

“I have also employed it in cases, happily rare in our army, of chronic alcoholism resulting from the abuse of brandy, absinthe or strong liquors. The produced all the excitement sought by drinkers, but had at the same time a sedative influence on their nervous systems. I have frequently seen hardened drinkers renounce their fatal habit and return to a healthy condition." "I have also used to save smokers of exaggerated habits, from nicotinism. A few glasses of taken in small doses, either pure or mixed with water, acted as a substitute for pipes and cigars, because the smokers found in it the cerebral excitement which they sought in tobacco, wholly preserving their intellectual faculties."

Coca to Combat Opiate, Alcohol and Tobacco Addiction
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-to-combat-opiate-alcohol-and.html

1906-1914+ Agrilcultural Market Protection Racket
http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/08/1907-1914-market-protection-racket-cig_17.html

1904-2004USDA

http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2008/08/1904-2004-usda.html

Note Luis Martin's agonizing death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Mart%C3%ADn

Suffering and death Even at the beginning of his term Martín's physical health had been poor and it grew steadily worse with the years. In 1905, a tumor forced the amputation of his right arm. Pope Pius X granted him permission to celebrate mass despite his disability, a privilege for which he was most grateful. The cancer, however, soon invaded his lungs and he died in Rome, on 18 April 1906.