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How can you have a drug war history paper without mentioning the lies spewed by Anslinger and promoted by Hearst?

"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." – Anslinger's testimony to US Congress supporting Marihuana Tax Act, 1937

"Marihuana is more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. … I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. … They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime." – Bulletin of the FBI, May 1938

"Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice."
Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1935

"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS."
White House Drug Czar Carlton Turner 1986

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
-- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister.
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