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Harry J. Anslinger Quotes

d. 1975 United States

Harry J. Anslinger (20 May 1892 – 14 November 1975) was the first Commissioner of the U.S.

United States
Law enforcement people

Also known as: Harry Anslinger, Harry J Anslinger

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Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

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Two Negroes took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis.

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Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

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Most marijuana smokers are colored people, jazz musicians, and entertainers. Their satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

Disputed Legalizing Marijuana : Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics‎ (2004)

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