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The Origin Story (it’s worse than you think)
Podcast |
The War on Drugs
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Drugs
History
Society & Culture
USA
Categories Via RSS |
History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Jan 25, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:35:48

Our co-hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod, along with guest Johann Hari discuss the long-forgotten mastermind behind America’s War on Drugs: Harry Anslinger - the infamous head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics toward the end of Prohibition. Desperate to justify his agency, and secure funding from Congress, Anslinger, by all accounts a virulent racist, fabricated stories about the dangers of drugs by demonizing minority communities four decades before Richard Nixon's declaration of war on drugs. 

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