Harry J. Anslinger

$2000 and/or jail time up to five years. (Kriho) Three men, William Randolf Hearst, Andrew Mellon and Harry Anslinger were the men behind the development of The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. The Act was created to reduce the size of the hemp industry. Anslinger was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and had made his career enforcing alcohol prohibition. Prohibition ended in 1933 and Anslinger felt he needed a new illegal substance for job security. Hearst owned a newspaper empire. Hemp had

and Hispanics. They said that this substance made people have violent attributes. There also was a man named Harry J. Anslinger; he was the director of a new governmental agency Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930s. When he became a director, he attacked cannabis because it would help him gain popularity with white Americans. “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men,” said Anslinger. That just shows the views of the man who made cannabis illegal. It wasn 't based on scientific or medical

rope used for war, cloth, incense, medicines, and food (Guither). In the 1930’s, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics and their director Harry J. Anslinger made it their mission to show the drug in a negative light in hopes of getting it banned (“Drug Facts: Marijuana”). They claimed it made Hispanics and Negros crazy and violent, which is a common theme Anslinger used to

Thomas Dewey, Eunice Carter Second Floor: Ralph Lamb First Floor: Undercover Agents, Donna Congeni Of all of the law enforcement officers that we will talk about today, few are more famous than the men in this room. Eliot Ness, Elmer Irey, Harry Anslinger, and J. Edgar Hoover were all well known for taking down criminals involved in many different rackets. Eliot Ness of the Bureau of Prohibition and Elmer Irey of the IRS were particularly influential in taking down gangsters during the 1920’s and

Filip Shamis Mr. Grosskreuz English Pre-Ap Period 1 5-4-16 Imagine that you suffered tremendous pain from a medical condition and the only medicine that could relieve this pain is illegal so because of this barrier, you have to resort to other drugs synthetically formulated in a lab. These drugs, which are not a natural product of nature, do nothing to help you. This is the case with many people, who oftentimes forego the law and purchase the drug in question-marijuana-on the black market. Marijuana

Politicians used this angle when campaigning against the evil of marijuana; suggesting anyone who used such a horrific drug was weak, stupid, and evil. Even dear old Harry J. Anslinger was quoted from a testimony to US Congress in an article by the examiner, “There are one hundred thousand total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result

the brain and changes perception, mood and consciousness. Roughly 167 million people in the world use it. In the early 20 century, smoking marijuana spread from Jamaica and West Indies to America. In the 1930s federal bureau narcotics chief Harry J. Anslinger tryed to scrare the people into thinking majrijana is very bad, by claming it lead to insanity, rape, and murder. The movie called “Refer madness” released in 1936, displayed those effects. He pursuaded congress to outlaw marijana in 1937. While

The legalization of Marijuana is a highly debated topic in the United States. Due to the recent interest it has become an issue which can only be handled at the law maker’s lately with more bills getting pushed by legislature to legalize it. Recently the District of Columbia, Oregon, and Alaska voted to legalize Marijuana bringing the total number of states in which in Marijuana is legal to five. In this paper we will present both sides to this highly debated topic. “Currently more than 60 U.S and

Pharmaceutical companies, the alcohol industry, and the government want to kill me -- okay no need to break out the tin foil just yet. I know that pharmaceutical companies, alcohol industry, and the government did not look down a list of names and pick me out. However, me and many patients like me are suffering from the negative side effects of prescription drugs that could be substituted out with medical marijuana, are being directly harmed by the fight by alcohol producers to obstruct laws, and

The consumption of alcohol was prohibited in the United States during the years 1920 through 1933. Prohibition was mandated under the 18th amendment of the Constitution, enabling legislation to enforce the ban and state which types of alcoholic beverages were permissible. The amendment was later repealed by the 21st amendment in 1933, which once again legalized the consumption and distribution of alcohol. There were many reasons as to why the prohibition of alcohol failed, ranging from high instances