#harry anslinger

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[thesociologicalcinema]

Harry Anslinger, Director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930-1962. "...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. Marijuana leads to pacificm and communist brainwashing. There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother. Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."

[lecataste]

Noam Chomsky | What Uncle Sam Really Wants | 1992

[blackhistorydeclassified]

Billie Holiday — The Federal Government vs. a Singer

Harry Anslinger told Billie Holiday to stop singing "Strange Fruit." She refused.He sent an undercover agent. Drug charges. Cabaret card revoked. The head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics used his agency to silence a singer. Because of a song about lynching.Full documentary on YouTube — @BlackHistoryDeclassified

[djwezg]

Review: Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - by Johann Hari

This is a solid well written piece of investigative journalism, exploring the history and present situation and indeed future of the War on Drugs. Hari traces back the war to a zealous prohibition agent, Harry Anslinger, who carved out world policy in this fight back in 1930s America. It’s very bizarre how one man’s irrational efforts have so thoroughly shaped world policy and are indirectly…

Review: Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - by Johann Hari

[515trunk]

I wish that Harry Anslinger was alive today so that I'd have the opportunity to torture him to death.

[seanhowe]

Original illustration for Harry Anslinger's infamous "Marijuana: Assassin of Youth" article, published in THE AMERICAN, July 1937