header Marijuana & Cannabis Blog Cannabis news and more! main div main menu Home About Cannabis Tutorials Buy Cannabis Seeds! put an empty link to have the end of the menu anyway 10 12 2008 These quotes are too ridiculous to even consider taking serious, however most of our current drug policies are based on the opinions and efforts of these same people. Harry J. Anslinger Anslinger was an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity — a new government agency with the opportunity to define both the problem and the solution. He immediately realized that opiates and cocaine wouldn’t be enough to help build his agency, so he latched on to marijuana and started to work on making it illegal at the federal level.Anslinger immediately drew upon the themes of racism and violence to draw national attenti...