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Protrait und viel Text zu Harry J. Anslinger der mit rassistischen L+gen das Cannabisverbot durchsetzte.
Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was an American government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the presidencies of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. He was a supporter of Prohibition, and of the criminalization of all drugs except for alcohol, spearheading anti-drug policy campaigns.[1][2]
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#Narrativ #racial #prejudice
In the 1930s, #Anslinger's anti-cannabis articles often contained #racist themes.
Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [#marijuana] and getting their sympathy ...
Two #Negroes […]
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