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Chapter Five: 1~IIARIJUANA PROHIBITION Anslingergot his mar$juana law... "Should we believe self serving, ever-gr»tving drug enfor+ce~nent/drug treatment bureaucrats, mhoae pay and advancement depends on )finding morn and more people to arrest and `treat'? "More Americana die in just one day in prisons, penitentiarsea, jails and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protectingY From whati'" Fred Oerther, M.D., Portland Oregon, September, 198& ~ MOVIIITG TO CRUSH DISSENT Study of Marijuana," Newsweek, Jan. 15,1945.) 4 After the 1938-1944 New York City "LaGuardia T~ technique of biasing the outceme of a study is Marijuana Report" refuted his argument, by report- researchers as "gutter saence." ~ ~ ins that marijuana caused no violence at all and st- ing other positive results; Harry J. Analinger, in pub- P0'p ~ THE THREAT OF PEACE lic tirade after tirade, denounced Mayor 1! iorella ~ LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine and However, from 1948 to 1950, Anslinger stopped the doctors who researched the report. feeding the press the story that marijuana was vio- i fence causing and began "Red Baiting," typical of the yr Analinger proclaimed that these doctors would rev- McCarthy era er again do marijuana experiments or research with- Now the frightened American public was told that "s, out his personal permission, or be sent to jail! ~''l He then used the full power of the United 3tatea ~ was a much more dangerous drug than he origi- ! government, illegally, to halt virtually all research rally thought. Testifying before a strongly anti- y,l into marijuana while he blackmailed the American Communist Congress in 1948~and thereafter con- e,I Medical Association (AMA)* into denouncing the tinually in the press-Analinger proclaimed that New York Academy of Medicine and its doctors for marijuana caused its users to become so the research they had done. peaceful-and pacifistic!-that the Communists * why, yon a.k, wa¦ the aMa now oa could and would use marijuana to weaken our Analinger'. aide in 19atas American fighting men a will to fight. t ~ after being ageinet the Mar(juana Ta: Act in 19ST1 Answer. since ~ Anelinger'c FBN was naponelble for proeecuRing doctor who pre- Thin was a 180-degree turnaround of the original ~ scribed narcotic drugs for what he, Analioger, deemed illegal pmpos- pretext On which `5riolence Causing" cannabis was ee, they (the FBl~ hed proeecuwd more thm S,ooO AMA Baton for outlawed in 1937. Undaunted, however Con esa ~ ' illegal pnacriptione through 1939. In 1939, the AMA made epectllc . peace with Anelinger on marjjuana The teeulta: Daly three dawn now voted to continue the marijuana law-based on ware prosecuted for illegal drugs of any sort Sum 1939 w 1949. the exact opposite reasonixig they had used to outlaw cannabis in the first place. The 1938-1944 Near York City K.aGuardia It is interesting and even absurd to note that An- i Mar~%uana Report" refuted the idea that clinger and his biggest supporters-Southern con- ; marijuana caused violence, and cited other greasmen and his beat senatorial friend, Senator positive results. Joseph McCarthy* of Wisconsin-from 1948 on, con- stantly received press coverage on the scare. To refute the LaGuardia report, the AMA, at • Aomtding w Ane]inger's auwbiognphical book, 49ie Murderers, Analinger's personal request, conducted a 1944-45 and bi' ~r~' sN aaanta. pneung~ar bas bean supplying study showing that 34 Negro GI's (and one white GI O1D~~ w a us. eenawr~Toeeph Mecartgy-for yeah. „ " The reason given by Anelinger in hie book? 3o the communists for statistical control) who smoked marijuana be- would sot 6e able w blackmail this Gnat American Senawr for his came disrespectful of white soldiers and officers in drug-dependency weakness. (Wean Latimer, FRouxra !n The stood; the segregated military. (See Appendiz p.lll, °Army llarry Analinger, The Mu,aeren.) -28-