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Cannabis

mitch96

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6. "threatened his monopoly on wood based newsprint." And Anslinger was the guy to do it..

Reply to The Wizard (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 1, 2021, 08:31 AM

Jun 2021

He was Mr Prohibition and when the liquor laws were repealed he did not have much of a job left,.
So being the anti MJ guy was right up his ally..Before Hurst and Anslinger MJ was no big deal..YMMV
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