#Satanic conversion, permanent #insanity, and #murder: These were the calamities that could befall #marijuana users of the early 20th century — according to #antimarijuana #propaganda.

And this #antireefer hysteria was, at least in part, the product of belligerent #FederalBureauofNarcotics Commissioner Harry J. #Anslinger's 1930 one-man "call to arms" #campaign against the drug.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/20th-century-anti-marijuana-propaganda

#Cannabis #Hanfwissen #Rassismus #Faschismus #Brutalisierung #BtMG #Drogenkrieg #warondrugs

"Anslingerian" Politics: The #History of #AntiMarijuana Sentiment

This paper is intended to demonstrate how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics propagation of negative images associating marijuana with the anti-social behavior of marginal socio-economic groups in the 1930s still influences the federal governments marijuana policies today

https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/73120378-a0d4-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b

#Cannabis #Hanfwissen #Historie #Faschismus #Rassismus #Eugenik #Ableismus #Menschenrechte #Wertesystem #Werte #Grundrechte #Grundgesetz