explanation channelled the grandfather of the drug war and a racist named harry anslinger who as founding commissioner of the federal bureau of narcotics spear headed the prohibition of cannabis. that was him being polite because he also cautioned that reefers make darkies think they re as good as white men. i could get into a long isn t that correcty takedown of this logic but i have more important things left in the hour that we have to do and frankly, i don t want to. but i will say one thing, mr. alfred. while you have issued a public apology, your position illustrates just how pervasive racialized thinking has been in the evolution of the drug war. a war that has put thousands of