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1910: Marihuana is the most frightening and vicious drug ever to hit New Orleans. New Orleans Public Safety Commission
1920s: Makes darkies think theyre as good as white men. H.J. Anslinger, Bureau of Narcotics
1930: Marihuana is responsible for the raping of white women by crazed negroes. Hearst Newspapers Nationwide
1932: Hasheesh goads users to blood lust. Hearst Newspapers
1935: Marihuana influenced negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white mens shadows, and look at a white woman twice. Hearst Newspapers
1937: Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind. Congressional Testimony, H.J. Anslinger, FBN
1938: Marihuana is more dangerous than heroin or cocaine. Anslinger, Scientific American, May, 1938
1938: If the hideous monster of Frankenstein came face to face with marihuana, he would drop dead of fright. Anslinger, FBN, quoted in Hearst newspaper
1937-50: Negro entertainers with their jazz and swing music are declared an outgrowth of marihuana use which possesses white women to tap their feet. statements to Congress by Anslinger, FBN
1945: More harmful than habit-forming opium, inducing fits of temporary insanity. Newsweek, 1-15-45
1946: Marihuana is an important cause of crime. Bureau of Narcotics, Newsweek, 11-18-46
1948: Marihuana leads to pacifism and Communist brainwashing. Anslinger, before Congress
1973: Marijuana increases breast size in males.
1974: Permanent brain damage is one of the inevitable results of the use of marijuana. Ronald Reagan, LA Times
1974: interferes with reproduction, disease resistance, and basic biological processes. Daily Oklahoman, 11-19-74
1980: Marijuana leads to harder drugs. Reagan Administration
1985: Marijuana use makes you sterile. Reagan Administration
1980s: Marijuana leads to heroin; marijuana causes brain damage. the 17-week D.A.R.E. Program
1986: Marijuana leads to homosexuality, the breakdown of the immune system, and therefore to AIDS. Carlton Turner
1990: Marijuana makes you lazy. Partnership for a Drug-Free America
1992: Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than 20 years ago. Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton
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