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Anslinger g ot his marijuana law
“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people to arrest and ‘treat’?
“More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails, and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”
—Fred Oerther, M.D., Portland Oregon, September, 1986.
The 1938-1944 New York City “LaGuardia Marijuana Report” refuted the idea that marijuana caused violence, and cited other positive results.
After the 1938-1944 New York City “LaGuardia Marijuana Report” refuted his argument, by reporting that marijuana caused no violence at all and citing other positive results; Harry J. Anslinger, in pub lic tirade after tirade, denounced Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine and the doctors who researched the report.
Anslinger proclaimed that these doctors would never again do marijuana experiments or research wi thout his personal permission, or be sent to jail!
He then used the full power of the United States government, illegally, to halt virtually all research into marijuana while he blackmailed the American Medical Association (AMA)* into denouncing the New York Academy of Medicine and its doctors for the research they had done.
* Why, you ask, was the AMA now on Anslinger’s side in 1944-45, after being against the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937? Answer: since Ansling er’s FBN was responsible for prosecuting doctors who prescribed narcotic drugs for what he, Anslinger, deemed illegal purposes, they (the FBN) had prosecuted more than 3,000 AMA doctors for illegal prescriptions through 1939. In 1939, the AMA made specific peace with Anslinger on marijuana. The results: Only three doctors were prosecuted for illegal drugs of any sort from 1939 to 1949.
To refute the LaGuardia report, the AMA, at Anslinger’s personal request, conducted a 19 44-45 study showing that 34 Negro GI’s (and one white GI for statistical “control”) who smoked marijuana became disrespectful of white soldiers and officers in the segregated military. (See Appendix in the paper version of this book, Army S tudy of Marijuana,” Newsweek, Jan. 15, 1945.)
This technique of biasing the outcome of a study is known among researchers as “gutter science.”
However, from 1948 to 1950, Anslinger stopped feeding the press the story that marijuana was violence causing and began “Red Baiting,” typical of the McCarthy era.
Now the frightened Ame rican public was told that this was a much more dangerous drug than he originally thought. Testifying before a strongly anti-Communist Congress in 1948—and thereafter continually in the press—Anslinger proclaimed that marijuana caused its users to become so peaceful—and pacifistic!—that the Communists could and would use marijuana to weaken our American fighting men’s will to fight.
This was a 180-degree turnaround of the original pretext on which “violen ce causing” cannabis was outlawed in 1937. Undaunted, however, Congress now voted to continue the marijuana law—based on the exact opposite reasoning they had used to outlaw cannabis in the first place.
It is interesting and even absurd to note that Anslinger and his biggest supporters—Southern congressmen and his best senatorial friend, Senator Joseph McCarthy* of Wisconsin—from 1948 on, constantly received press coverage on the scare.
Ansling er supplied illegal morphine to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy for years.
* According to Anslinger’s autobiographical book, The Murderers, and confirmed by former FBN agents, Anslinger had been supplying morphine illegally to a U.S . senator—Joseph McCarthy—for years.
The reason given by Anslinger in his book? So the communists would not be able to blackmail this Great American Senator for his drug-dependency weakness. (Dean Latimer, Flowers In The Blo od; Harry Anslinger, The Murderers.)
The communists had the potential to sell marijuana to American boys to sap their will to fight—to make us a nation of zombie pacifists. Of course, the communists of Russia and China ridiculed this American marijuana paranoia every chance they got—in the press and at the United Nations.
Unfortunately, the idea of pot and pacifism got so much sensational world press for the next decade that eventually Russia, China, and the Eastern Bloc communist countries (who grew large amounts of cannabis) outlawed marijuana for feat that America would sell or give it to their peoples to make their soldiers pacifists.
This was strange because Russia, Eastern Euro pe, and China had been growing and ingesting cannabis as a medical drug, relaxant, and work tonic for hundreds and even thousands of years, with no thought of marijuana laws.
(The J.V. Dialogue Soviet Press Digest, Oct., 1990 reported a flourishing illegal hemp business, despite the frantic efforts by Soviet law enforcement agencies to stamp it out. “In Kirghizia alone hemp plantations occupy some 3,000 hectares.” In another area Russians are traveling three days into the &# 147;one of the more sinister places in the Moiyn-Kumy desert,” to harvest a special high grade, drought resistant variety of hemp known locally as anasha.)
Through a report released in 1983 under the Freedom of Information Act, it was discovered (after 40 years of secrecy) that Anslinger was appointed in 1942 to a top-secret committee to create a “truth serum” ; for the OSS, Office of Strategic Services, which evolved into the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency. (Rolling Stone, August 1983.)
Anslinger and his spy group picked, as America’s first truth serum, “honey oil,” a much purer, almost tasteless form of hash oil, to be administered in food to: spies, saboteurs, military prisoners, and the like, to “spill the truth,” without their knowledge.
Fifteen months later, in 1943, marijuana extrac ts were discontinued by Anslinger’s group as America’s first truth serum because it was noted that they didn’t work all the time:
The persons being interrogated would often giggle or laugh hysterically at their captors, get paranoid, or have insatiable desires for food (the munchies?). Also, the report noted that American OSS agents and other interrogation groups started using the honey oil illegally themselves, and would not give it to the spies. In Anslinger’s OSS group’s final report on marijuana as a truth-serum, there was no mention of violence caused by the drug! In fact, the opposite was indicated. The OSS and later the CIA continued the search and tried other drugs as a truth serum; psilocybe or aman ita mushrooms and LSD, to name a few.
The CIA secretly tested these concoctions on American agents for 20 years.
Unsuspecting subjects jumped from buildings, or thought they’d gone insane.
Our government finally admitted to doing all this to its own people in the 1970s—after 25 years of denials: drugging innocent, non-consenting, unaware citizens, soldiers, and government agents—all in the name of national security, of course.
These American “security” agencies constantly threatened and even occasionally imprisoned individuals, families, and organizations that suggested the druggings had ever occurred.
It was three decades befo re the Freedom of Information Act forced the CIA to admit their lies through exposure on TV by CBS’s 60 Minutes and others. However, on April 16, 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the CIA did not have to reveal the identities of either the indiv iduals or institutions involved in this travesty.
The court said, in effect, that the CIA could decide what was or was not to be released under the Freedom of Information Act, and that the courts could not overrule the agency’s d ecision.
As an aside, repealing this Freedom of Information Act was one of the prime goals of the Reagan/Bush/Quayle Administration.
(L.A. Times, The Oregonian, etc. editorials 1984; The Oregonian, January 21, 198 5; Lee, Martin & Shlain, Bruce, Acid Dreams, Grove Press, 1985.)
Before Anslinger started the pacifist zombie-marijuana scare in 1948, he publ icly used jazz music, violence, and the “gore files” for five to seven more years (1943-50) in the press, at conventions, lectures, and Congressional hearings.
We now know that on the subject of hemp, disguised as marijuana, Anslinger was a bureaucratic police liar.
For almost 60 years now Americans have been growing up with and accepting Anslinger’s statements on the herb—from violence to evil pacifism and finally to the corrupting influence o f music.
Whether this was economically or racially inspired, or even because of up-beat music or some kind of synergistic (combined) hysteria; it is impossible to know for sure. But we do know the U.S. Government, e.g., DEA, informati on disseminated on cannabis was then, and continues to be, a deliberate deception.
As you will see in the following chapters, the weight of empirical fact and large amounts of corroborating evidence indicate that the former Reagan/Bus h/Quayle administrations, along with their unique pharmaceutical connections, have probably conspired at the highest levels to withhold information and to disinform the public, resulting in the avoidable and needless deaths of tens of thousands of America ns.
(see “Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sell-out” sidebar at the end of this chapter.)
And they did it, it seems, intending to save their own investment—and their friends’—in the pharma ceutical, energy, and paper industries; and to give these poisonous, synthetic industries an insane advantage over natural hemp and protect the billions of dollars in annual profits that they stood to lose if the hemp plant and marijuana were not prohibit ed!
As a result, millions of Americans have wasted millions of years in jail time, and millions of lives have been and continue to be ruined by what started out as Hearst’s, Anslinger’s and DuPont’s shameful economic li es, vicious racial libels and bigoted musical taste.
1. Abel, Ernest, Marijuana, The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, NY, 1980, pg. 73 & 99.
2. Sloman, Larr y, Reefer Madness, Grove Press, Inc., New York 1979, pg. 40.
3. Ibid, pg. 196, 197.
4. Research of Dr. Michael Aldrich, Richard Ashley, Michael Horowitz, et al.; The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs, pg. 138.
In America, marijuana’s most outspoken opponents are none other than former first lady Nancy Reagan (1981-198 9) and former President George Bush (1989-1993), and former Director of the CIA under Gerald Ford (1975-1977), and past director of President Reagan’s “Drug Task Force” (1981-1988).
After leaving the CIA in 1977, Bush w as made director of Eli Lilly by none other than Dan Quayle’s father and family, who owned controlling interest in the Lilly company and the Indianapolis Star. Dan Quayle later acted as go-between for drug kingpins, gun runners, and government offici als in the Iran-Contra scandals.
The entire Bush family were large stockholders in Lilly, Abbott, Bristol, and Pfizer, etc. After Bush’s disclosure of assets in 1979, it became public that Bush’s family still had a large int erest in Pfizer and substantial amounts of stock in the other aforementioned drug companies.
In fact, Bush actively lobbied illegally both within and without the Administration as Vice President in 1981 to permit drug companies to dum p more unwanted, obsolete, or, especially, domestically-banned substances on unsuspecting Third World countries.
While Vice President, Bush continued to illegally act on behalf of pharmaceutical companies by personally going to the IR S for special tax breaks for certain drug companies (e.g. Lilly) manufacturing in Puerto Rico. In 1982, Vice President Bush was personally ordered to stop lobbying the IRS on behalf of the drug companies by the U.S. Supreme Court itself. (See Appendix in the paper version of this book).
He did — but they (the pharmaceuticals) still received a 23% additional tax break for their companies in Puerto Rico who make these American outlawed drugs for sale to Third World countries.
< p ALIGN=LEFT> Financial disclosure statements; Bush 1979 tax report; “Bush Tried to Sway A Tax Rule Change But Then Withdrew” NY Times, May 19, 1982; misc. corporate records; Christic Institute “La Penca” affidavit; Lilly 1979 Annual Report.)This CD-ROM created on Macintosh computers by Milo and Stephen.
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