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That’s just silly. Harry Anslinger worked for FDR.

3 posted on 04/14/2010 2:57:26 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

To: tacticalogic

I think Tommy Chong was born in Canada but don’t let that stop the public from getting started on a “Cheech and Chong 2012” political platform...

17 posted on 04/14/2010 3:07:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")

To: tacticalogic

That’s just silly. Harry Anslinger worked for FDR.

Yep, you're absolutely right. It was the PROGRESSIVES that began our nation's 1st anti-drug laws, w/ the Harrison Narcotics Act back in 1906, IIRC. Alcohol Prohibition soon followed, then the Marihuana Tax Axt of 1937, which was focused primarily against black & Hispanics in the South, 'cuz they were the main users of pot back in those days.

Cheech's short-term memory goes back only to the 1970's I guess (I wonder why? LOL), 'cuz it was the social "conservatives" of the 1970's & 80's that started & then ramped up the official War on (some) Drugs. W/ the help of the White House, Nancy Reagan & these social (a-hem) "conservatives" continued the Progressive agenda in ways that Anslinger & Woodrow Wilson could only have dreamed of.

32 posted on 04/14/2010 4:44:38 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (Alright, tighten your shorts, Pilgrim, & sing like the Duke!)

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