At permalink #68 I posted a link to
Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory.
The assertion there is that the industrial argument fails because the machinations of bankers are opaque. (?)
When Prohibition failed, Harry Anslinger, who'd been appointed by [banker] Andrew Mellon, needed
raison d'etre for his FBN:
Quote:
Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, headed the charge. "If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana, he would drop dead of fright," he thundered in 1937.
An ambitious racist ... who had previously been federal assistant Prohibition commissioner, Anslinger railed against reefer in magazine articles like 1937's "Marihuana: Assassin of Youth."
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