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onager

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4. Thanks! Anslinger also had a starring role...

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #3)

Thu May 26, 2016, 06:52 PM

May 2016

In the 1999 Canadian documentary "Grass." All about the Demon Weed. And like your book, fascinating but infuriating. Definitely worth a watch. The film goes into the strong racist component of the early marijuana wars - IIRC, the very first anti-grass campaign was just part of an anti-Mexican-American campaign in Texas. Then there were all those evil Negro jazz musicians...

The film places much of the blame for marijuana criminalization on Harry Anslinger (the first American drug czar) who promoted false information about marijuana to the American public as a means towards abolition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_(1999_film)

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very interesting RussBLib May 2016 #1

This deserves another rec. progressoid May 2016 #2

so I'm currently reading "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs" RussBLib May 2016 #3

Thanks! Anslinger also had a starring role... onager May 2016 #4

that link acts up RussBLib May 2016 #5