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Enforcement 🇺🇸 United States

The narcotics bureau decides to play down marijuana

Anslinger told his New York supervisor that press reports had become almost hysterical and that the bureau would now discourage undue emphasis on the drug. He advised a doctor against writing a syndicated article, saying it would only make the curious try it.[1]

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References

  1. The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · chapter 9, pp. 178–179 · ISBN 1891385062

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