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Harry J. Anslinger
Director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
1930 - 1967 |
General References to Anslinger
The History of the Marijuana Laws in the United
States by Charles Whitebread - A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual
conference An excellent, and funny history of how we got our current drug laws.
The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of
Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition by
Professor Richard J. Bonnie & Professor Charles H. Whitebread, II -- The first major
study ever done of the legal history of the marihuana laws.
The History of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
by David F. Musto, MD
From the National Commission on
Marihuana and Drug Abuse, 1972
From The Marihuana Tax Act Page
- Conference on Cannabis Sativa L. January 14,
1937 -- Room 81 Treasury Building, 10:30 AM
- Statement of H. J. Anslinger, Commissioner
of Narcotics, Bureau of Narcotics, Department of the Treasury.
- Additional statement of H. J. Anslinger
(includes "Marihuana as a Developer of Criminals", by Eugene Stanley, district
attorney, parish of Orleans, New Orleans, La.)
- Statement of H. J. Anslinger, Commissioner of
Narcotics, Bureau of Narcotics of the Treasury Department
- Marihuana Conference of 1938
Correspondence about the legal status
of hemp 1930 - 1938
- Letter from Harry Anslinger - September 29,
1936
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - September 30,
1936
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - October 6, 1936
- Letter from Harry Anslinger - November 2,
1936
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - November 3, 1936
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - November 5, 1936
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - November 6, 1936
- Report of the Marihuana Investigation -
Summer, 1937
- Letter from H. W. Bellrose, October 12,
1937
- Letter from H. W. Bellrose - October 12,
1937
- Letter from H. W. Bellrose - October 14,
1937
- Letter from Brien McMahon - October 26,
1937
- Letter from Will S. Wood - November 6, 1937
- Letter from Frank Ridgway - January 21,
1938
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - March 5, 1938
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - March 5, 1938
- Letter from Elizabeth Bass - March 10, 1938
- Report of Survey Commercialized Hemp Crop
(1934-35 Crop) in the State of Minnesota, by H.T. Nugent, Federal Bureau of
Narcotics, Field Supervisor, October 22, 1938
Hemp Around Their Necks -- Chapter 3 of Harry
Anslinger's 1961 book "The Murderers". - Among other things he tells how the La
Guardia Committee Report gave children a signal to light up as many reefers as they want.