Johann Hari’s new book nails nails Harry Anslinger as a lying racist fanatic.
But what does that tell us about cannabis policy going forward?
Not much, I’d say.
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Keith_Humphreys says
But his interviews with Anslinger and Woodrow Wilson were revealing.
Matt Mangels says
While I broadly agree with the overall premise, there are parts of this article that rub me the wrong way. The author takes a "vigorous marketing effort designed to promote heavy use" as a given, as if there is no way a legal cannabis industry and its advertising could possibly be regulated. As for "minors who damage their life-chances by spending too many teenage hours stoned", where do parents enter into this equation? As much as I hate to say it and sound like a Libertarian, "personal responsibility" is not a completely BS retort 100% of the time (the "Broken Clock" principle, if you will), and I think it applies here. This is indeed a very cynical article. "Parents are unable to control their kids, lobbyists have completely captured our government so of course there's going to be no regulation, legalization doesn't sound like all that great of an idea now, does it?"