Harry J. Anslinger Quotes

• There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Women, Marijuana

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• Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Eye, Men, White Man

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• Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Weed, Marijuana, Men

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• The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Race, Degenerates

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• Marijuana is taken by musicians. And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Taken, Marijuana, Musician

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• I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Wish, Population

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• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Insanity, Drug

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• You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Brother, Marijuana, Joints

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• Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Drug, Violence

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• Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Party, Pregnancy, Marijuana

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• Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Drug, Violent, Mankind

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Communism, Communist

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• If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Monsters, Faces

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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...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Religious, Military, Order

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