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Harry Jacob Anslinger, né le 20 mai 1892 à Altoona en Pennsylvanie, mort le 14 novembre 1975 à Hollidaysburg, était un politicien et journaliste des États-Unis, essentiellement connu comme le « McCarthy de la drogue ». Il fut dans un premier temps commissaire auxiliaire de la prohibition, avant d’être nommé premier commissaire du bureau fédéral du département du trésor aux narcotiques , le 12 août 1930. Il occupa ces fonctions durant 32 ans, record de durée en la matière. Il fut ensuite pendant deux ans représentant des États-Unis à la Commission des narcotiques des Nations unies.

L’héritage d’Anslinger en matière de lutte contre la marijuana, reposant sur des décennies de désinformation, est aujourd’hui remis en cause. Certains affirment que Harry J. Anslinger était seulement une marionnette au service d’un courant politique porteur.

Les responsabilités détenues par Harry J. Anslinger sont désormais en grande partie sous la juridiction du U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy. Compte tenu de son rôle majeur dans l’évolution de la politique fédérale de la drogue aux États-Unis, on peut s’étonner qu’il n’apparaisse ni sur le site Web de la Drug Enforcement Administration, ni sur celui de l’Office of national drug control policy.

Anslinger est mort à l’âge de 83 ans d’un arrêt du cœur à Hollidaysburg en Pennsylvanie. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. mai 1892 – 14. novembre 1975
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Harry J. Anslinger: Citations en anglais

“Here we have drug that is not like opium. Opium has all of the good of Dr. Jekyll and all the evil of Mr. Hyde. This drug is entirely the monster Hyde, the harmful effect of which cannot be measured. Some people will fly into a delirious rage, and they are temporarily irresponsible and may commit violent crimes. Other people will laugh uncontrollably. It is impossible to say what the effect will be on any individual. Those research men who have tried it have always been under control. They have always insisted upon that. … It is dangerous to the mind and body, and particularly dangerous to the criminal type, because it releases all of the inhibitions.”

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Hearing on H.R. 6385 (April 1937)

“Traffic in marijuana is increasing to such an extent that it has come to the be cause for the greatest national concern.
This drug is as old as civilization itself. Homer wrote about, as a drug that made men forget their homes, and that turned them into swine. In Persia, a thousand years before Christ, there was a religious and military order founded which was called the Assassins and they derived their name from the drug called hashish which is now known in this country as marihuana. They were noted for their acts of cruelty, and the word "assassin" very aptly describes the drug.”

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Hearing on H.R. 6385 (April 1937) http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/hemp/taxact/anslng1.htm

“Most marijuana smokers are colored people, jazz musicians, and entertainers. Their satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

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As quoted in Legalizing Marijuana : Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics‎ (2004) by Rudolph Joseph Gerber, p. 9; also in Hawking Hits on the Information Highway : The Challenge of Online Drug Sales for Law Enforcement (2008) by Laura L. Finley , p. 28, and "The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana" (1994) by Jack Herer, Jeanie Cabarga, and Jeanie Herer, p. 29.
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“How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured…No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer…”

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"Marijuana — Assassin of Youth" in The American Magazine, Vol. 24 (July 1937), p. 18