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Victor Licata (c. 1912 – December 4, 1950) was an axe murdering marijuana addict who killed his father, mother, two brothers, a sister and their dog in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida on October 16, 1933. Declared unfit to stand trial for reasons of insanity, subsequent psychiatric examination at the Florida State Hospital for the Insane determined that the 21-year-old Licata suffered from "dementia praecox with homicidal tendencies". While the press depicted the murders as a result of Licata being a cannabis user, the drug was not mentioned in psychiatric reports as having any bearing on his actions. Licata had already been identified as mentally ill and there had been steps to incarcerate him before his crime. On December 4, 1950, while still living at the Florida State Hospital for the Insane where he had been since 1933, Licata committed suicide by hanging himself. His family were all buried at the (Italian Club of Tampa Cemetery ). ==Depiction in media== The Licata case became a cause célèbre in the press, cited by proponents of laws cracking down on marijuana. It became central to the trope of "marijuana-crime-insanity". An October 20, 1933 editorial on page six of the ''Tampa Morning Tribune'' was entitled "Stop This Murderous Smoke".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.unclemikesresearch.com/category/licata/ )〕 The editorial writer called for the prohibition of marijuana: "...()t may or may not be wholly true that the pernicious marijuana cigarette is responsible for the murderous mania of a Tampa young man in exterminating all the members of his family within his reach — but whether or not the poisonous mind-wrecking weed is mainly accountable for the tragedy its sale should not be and should never have been permitted here or elsewhere. The case served to inspire media depictions of normal people driven to criminal insanity by the "evil weed" such as the notorious 1936 exploitation film ''Tell Your Children'' (a.k.a. ''Reefer Madness'').〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/ )〕 In 1941, Cornell Woolrich under his pen name William Irish published the dime novel ''Marihuana: A Drug-Crazed Killer at Large'', a story exploiting the marijuana-crime-insanity trope popularized by drug prohibitionists who used the Licata case as an example. In the book, a man goes on a murder spree after being exposed to marijuana for the first time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Licata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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