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Karl Theodor

How a #racist #hatemonger #masterminded America’s #WaronDrugs
#HarryAnslinger conflated #drug use, #race, and #music to #criminalize #nonwhiteness and create a #prisonindustrialcomplex

youtu.be/IffacdsVsG4

In this edition of #Cannabis #Conversations, Dr. #EthanRusso discusses clinical #endocannabinoiddeficiency and ways to target the #endocannabinoidsystem for #therapeutic benefit with Martin A. Lee, Co-Founder of Project #CBD. youtube.com/redirect?event=vid

medium.com/timeline/harry-ansl

05.05.2025 ... Those who first spread its use were musicians. They brought the habit northward with the surge of “hot” music demanding players of exceptional ability, especially in improvisation. Along the Mexican border and in southern seaport cities it had long been known that the drug has a strangely exhilarating effect upon the musical sensibilities. The musician who uses it finds that the musical beat seemingly comes to him quite slowly, thus allowing him to interpolate improvised notes with comparative ease. He does not realize that he is tapping the keys with a furious speed impossible for one in a normal state. Anslinger found several cases where people had committed violent offenses purportedly while high, and presented them to Congress. The case that seemed to seal the deal was that of Victor Licata, a young Italian man who had hacked his family to death. Anslinger consulted 30 doctors to confirm his claim that weed was linked to violent crime. Of those, 29 said there was no connection, so he peddled the message of the one dissenting doctor to anyone who would listen. Anslinger’s appeal to fear appeared to be working. ... https://medium.com/timeline/harry-anslinger-racist-war-on-drugs-prison-industrial-complex-fb5cbc281189
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This is completely beyond the pale:

'The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration."

“This is not fraud. This is targeted harassment,”

newrepublic.com/post/192660/tr

The New Republic · Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate GroupsThe Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
#FBI#Criminalize#HabitatForHumanity
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