The Racial History of Weed (AUDIO)

Apr 18, 2016
10:50 AM

An advertisement distributed by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1935 (Public Domain)

This weekend our friends at NPR’s Latino USA dedicated an entire hour on weed. One of the segments focused on how the Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics “painted Mexicans as murderous, loco-weed smoking criminals.”