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Harry Jacob Anslinger, who started as a railroad bull, spent more than 30 years as the commissioner of the Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau Of Narcotics, running the first war on drugs, which was largely a war against jazz, Black people, and the Mexican border. Much of the lurid sensationalism attributed to him (but mostly written by others) has passed into stoner legend. But the historical record tells us that these scare tactics stories of white teenagers driven to madness and murder by Cab Calloway had little influence on public opinion, and that Anslinger’s own motives and statements were contradictory. For the most part, he was after budgets and bureaucratic power. ....

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