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Chapter 5
Marijuana Prohibition
Anslinger got his marijuana law. . .
"Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing
drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement
depends on finding more and more people to arrest and 'treat'?
"More Americans die in just one day in prisons,
penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died from marijuana
throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what? - Fred Oerther,
M.D., Portland, Oregon, September 1986
Moving to Crush Dissent
After the 1938-1944 New York City "LaGuardia
Marijuana Report" refuted his argument, by reporting that
marijuana caused no violence at all and citing other positive results,
Harry J. Anslinger, in public tirade after tirade, denounced Mayor
Fiorello LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine and the doctors
who researched the report.
Anslinger proclaimed that these doctors would never
again do marijuana experiments or research without his personal
permission, or be sent to jail!
He then used the full power of the United States
government, illegally to halt virtually all research into marijuana
while he blackmailed the American Medical Association (AMA)* into
denouncing the New York Academy of Medicine and its doctors for the
research they had done.
* Why, you ask, was the AMA now on Anslinger's side
in 1944-45, after being against the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937? Answer:
since Anslinger's FBN was responsible for prosecuting doctors who
prescribed narcotic drugs for what he, Anslinger, deemed illegal
purposes, they (the FBN) had prosecuted more than 3,000 AMA doctors
for illegal prescriptions through 1939. In 1939, the AMA made specific
peace with Anslinger on marijuana. The results: only three doctors
were prosecuted for illegal drugs of any sort from 1939 to 1949.
To refute the LaGuardia report, the AMA, at
Anslinger's personal request, conducted a 1944-45 study; "of the
experimental group 34 were negroes and one was white" (for
statistical control) who smoked marijuana, became disrespectful of
white soldiers and officers in the segregated military. (See Appendix,
"Army Study of Marijuana," Newsweek, Jan 15, 1945.)
This technique of biasing the outcome of a study is
known among researchers as "gutter science."
Pot and the Threat of Peace
However, from 1948 to 1950, Anslinger stopped feeding
the press the story that marijuana was violence-causing and began
"red baiting", typical of the McCarthy era.
Now the frightened American public was told that this
was a much more dangerous drug than he originally thought. Testifying
before a strongly anti-Communist Congress in 1948 - and thereafter
continually to the press - Anslinger proclaimed that marijuana
rendered its users not violent at all, but so peaceful - and
pacifistic! - that the Communists could and would use marijuana to
weaken our American fighting men's will to fight.
This was a 180-degree turnaround of the original
pretext on which "violence-causing" cannabis was outlawed in
1937. Undaunted, however, Congress now voted to continue the marijuana
law - based on the exact opposite reasoning they had used to outlaw
cannabis in the first place.
It is interesting and even absurd to note that
Anslinger and his biggest supporters - southern congressmen and his
best senatorial friend, Senator Joseph McCarthy* of Wisconsin - from
1948 on, constantly received press coverage on the scare.
*According to Anslinger's autobiographical book,
The Murderers, and confirmed by former FBN agents, Anslinger had been
supplying morphine illegally to a U.S. senator - Joseph McCarthy - for
years. The reason given by Anslinger in his book? So the Communists
would not be able to blackmail this great American Senator for his
drug-dependency weakness. (Dean Latimer, Flowers in the Blood;
Harry Anslinger; The Murderers.)
Anslinger told congress the Communists would sell
marijuana to American boys to sap their will to fight - to make us a
nation of zombie pacifists. Of course, the Communists of Russia and
China ridiculed this U.S. marijuana paranoia every chance they got -
in the press and at the United Nations.
Unfortunately, the idea of pot and pacifism got so
much sensational world press for the next 20 years that eventually
Russia, China, and the Eastern Bloc Communist countries (that grew
large amounts of cannabis) outlawed marijuana for fear that America
would sell it or use it to make the communist soldiers docile and
pacifistic.
This was strange because Russia, Eastern Europe, and
China had been growing and ingesting cannabis as a medical drug,
relaxant and work tonic for hundreds and even thousands of years, with
no thought of marijuana laws.
(The J.V. Dialogue Soviet Press Digest, Oct. 1990
reported a flourishing illegal hemp business, despite the frantic
efforts by Soviet law enforcement agencies to stamp it out. "In
Kirghizia alone, hemp plantations occupy some 3,000 hectares." In
another area, Russians are traveling three days into "one of the
more sinister places in the Moiyn-Kumy desert," to harvest a
special high-grade, drought resistant variety of hemp known locally as
anasha.)"
A Secret Program to Control Minds and Choices
Through a report released in 1983 under the Freedom of
Information Act, it was discovered (after 40 years of secrecy) that
Anslinger was appointed in 1942 to a top-secret committee to create a
"truth serum" for the Office of Strategic Service (OSS),
which evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). (Rolling
Stone, August 1983)
Anslinger and his spy group picked, as America's first
truth serum, "honey oil," a much purer, almost tasteless
form of hash oil, to be administered in food to spies, saboteurs,
military prisoners and the like, to make them unwittingly "spill
the truth."
Fifteen months later, in 1943, marijuana extracts were
discontinued by Anslinger's group as America's first truth serum
because it was noted that they didn't work all the time.
The people being interrogated would often giggle or
laugh hysterically at their captors, get paranoid, or have insatiable
desires for food (the munchies?). Also, the report noted that American
OSS agents and other interrogation groups started using the honey oil
illegally themselves, and would not give it to the spies. In
Anslinger's OSS group's final report on marijuana as a truth serum,
there was no mention of violence caused by the drug! In fact, the
opposite was indicated. The OSS and later the CIA continued the search
and tried other drugs as a truth serum; psilocybin or amanita mascara
mushrooms and LSD, to name a few.
For twenty years, the CIA secretly tested these
concoctions on American agents. Unsuspecting subjects jumped from
buildings, or thought they'd gone insane.
Our government finally admitted doing all this to its
own people in the 1970s, after 25 years of denials: drugging innocent,
non-consenting, unaware citizens, soldiers and government agents - all
in the name of national security, of course.
These American "security" agencies
constantly threatened and even occasionally imprisoned individuals,
families and organizations that suggested the druggings ever occurred.
It was three decades before the Freedom of Information
Act forced the CIA to admit its lies through exposure on TV by CBS's
"60 Minutes" and others. However, on April 16, 1985 the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that the CIA did not have to reveal the identities
of either the individuals or institutions involved in this travesty.
The court said, in effect, that the CIA could decide
what was or was not to be released under the Freedom of Information
Act, and that the courts could not overrule the agency's decision.
As an aside, repealing this Freedom of Information Act
was one of the prime goals of the Reagan/Bush/Quayle Administration.
(L.A. Times, The Oregonian, etc.
editorials 1984; The Oregonian, January 21, 1985; Lee, Martin
& Shlain, Bruce, Acid Dreams, Grove Press, NY, 1985.
Criminal Misconduct
Before Anslinger started the pacifist zombie-marijuana
scare in 1948, he publicly used jazz music, violence, and the
"gore files" for five to seven more years (1943-50) in the
press, at conventions, lectures, and congressional hearings.
We now know that on the subject of hemp, disguised as
marijuana, Anslinger was a bureaucratic police liar.
For more than 60 years now Americans have been growing
up with and accepting Anslinger's statements on the herb - from
violence to evil pacifism and finally to the corrupting influence of
music.
Whether this was economically or racially inspired, or
even because of upbeat music or some kind of synergistic (combined)
hysteria, is impossible to know for sure. But we do know that for the
U.S. government, e.g., DEA, information disseminated on cannabis was
then and continues to be, a deliberate deception.
As you will see in the following chapters, the weight
of empirical fact and large amounts of corroborating evidence indicate
that the former Reagan/Bush/Quayle administrations along with their
unique pharmaceutical connections (see "Bush/Quayle/Lilly
Pharmaceutical Sellout" below) have probably conspired at the
highest levels to withhold information and to disinform the public,
resulting in the avoidable and needless deaths of tens of thousands of
Americans.
And they did it, it seems, intending to save their own
investment - and their friends' - in the pharmaceutical, energy and
paper industries; and to give these poisonous, synthetic industries an
insane advantage over natural hemp and protect the billions of dollars
in annual profits that they stood to lose if the hemp plant and
marijuana were not prohibited!
As a result, millions of Americans have wasted
millions of years in jail time, and millions of lives have been and
continue to be ruined by what started out as Hearst's, Anslinger's and
DuPont's shameful economic lies, vicious racial libels and bigoted
musical taste.
Footnotes:
1. Abel, Ernest, Marijuana, The First 12,000 Years,
Plenum Press, NY, 1980, pg. 73 & 99.
2. Sloman, Larry, Reefer Madness, Grove Press, Inc.,
New York 1979, pg. 40.
3. Ibid, pg. 196, 197.
4. Research of Dr. Michael Aldrich, Richard Ashley,
Michael Horowitz, et al.; The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational
Drugs, pg. 138.
The Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout
In America, marijuana's most outspoken opponents are
none other than former First Lady Nancy Reagan (1981-1989) and former
President George Bush (1989-1993), the former Director of the CIA
under Gerald Ford (1975-1977) and past director of President Reagan's
"Drug Task Force" (1981-1988).
After leaving the CIA in 1977, Bush was made director
of Eli Lily to none other than Dan Quayle's father and family, who
owned controlling interest in the Lilly company and the Indianapolis
Star. Dan Quayle later acted as go-between for drug kingpins, gun
runners and government officials in the Iran-Contra scandals.
The entire Bush family was large stockholders in
Lilly, Abbott, Bristol and Pfizer, etc. After Bush's disclosure of
assets in 1979, it became public that Bush's family still has a large
interest in Pfizer and substantial amounts of stock in the other
aforementioned drug companies.
In fact, Bush actively lobbied illegally both within
and without the administration as Vice President in 1981 to permit
drug companies to dump more unwanted, obsolete or especially
domestically-banned substances on unsuspecting Third World countries.
While Vice President, Bush continued to illegally act
on behalf of pharmaceutical companies by personally going to the IRS
for special tax breaks for certain drug companies (e.g. Lilly)
manufacturing in Puerto Rico. In 1982, Vice President Bush was
personally ordered to stop lobbying the IRS on behalf of the drug
companies by the U.S. Supreme Court itself. (See Appendix.)
He did - but they (the pharmaceuticals) still received
a 23% additional tax break for their companies in Puerto Rico who make
these American outlawed drugs for sale to Third World countries.
(Financial disclosure statements; Bush 1979 tax
report; "Bush Tried to Sway a Tax Rule Change But Then
Withdrew" NY Times, May 19, 1982; misc. corporate records;
Christic Institute "La Penca" affidavit; Lilly 1979 Annual
Report.)
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