For those of you that don't know, "As the AMA's Dr. Woodward had asserted, the goverment's testimony before Congress in 1937 had in fact consisted almost entirely of Hearst's and other sensational and racist newspaper articles read aloud by Harry J. Anslinger, direct of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics(FBN). (This agency has since evolved into the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Prior to 1931, Anslinger was assistant U.S. Commisoner for Prohibition. Anslinger, remember, was hand-picked to head the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics by his uncle-in-law, Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover. The same Andrew Mellon was also the owner and largest stockholder of the sixth largest bank (in 1937) in the United States, the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, one of only two bankers for DuPont from 1928 to present.

In 1937, anslinger testified before Congress saying, "Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."

This along with Anslinger's outrageous racist statements and beliefs, was made to the southern dominated congressional commitee and is now an embarrassment to read in it's entirety.

For instance, Anslinger kept a "Gore File", culled almost entirely from Hearst and other sensational tabloids-e.g., stories of axe murderers, where one of the participants reportedly smoked a joint four days before comitting the crime.

Anslinger pushed on Congress as a factual statement that about 50% of all violent crimes committed in the U.S. were committed by Spaniards, Mexican-Americans, Latin Americans, filipinos, African-Americans, and Greeks, and these crimes could be traced directly to marijuana. Not one of Ansliger's marijuana "Gore Files" of the 1930's is believed to be true by scholars who have painstakingly checked the facts...."

"...However, from 1948 to 1950 Anslinger stopped feeding the press the story that marijuana was violence-causing and begun"red baiting", typical of the McCarthy era.

Now the frightened American 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 to the press-Anslinger proclaimed that marijuana rendered it's users non-violent at all, but so peaceful-and pacifistic!-that the Communists could and would use marijauana to weaken our American fighting men's will to fight."

here are some direct quotes from Mr. Anslinger to congress."...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."

"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."

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."

"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing."

"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."

we need to realize that these laws are antiquated and have done nothing to stem the flow of drugs in our country,