“Anslinger had nothing to do with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. How can you call the current law a crock?”
I case you haven’t noticed, once a government assumes a particular course it has a terrible time admitting it made a mistake. Liability, careers...there are ramifications.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 simply perpetuated the stupid mistakes made before.
Well, there you go. Of course. That explains why blacks and women and those under 18 can't vote today.
The government in 1970 owed nothing to Anslinger. They could easily have derided him as a fool -- Negro jazz musicians raping white women indeed!