The In 1937, Harry Anslinger co-authored an article entitled,

Marijuana, Assassin of Youth, which was published in the American magazine.

Anslinger was the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcom. magazine. later that marijuana the act made hemp and marijuana illegal in the US

and Anslinger testified before the Senate Ways and Means Committee

stating to Congress that marijuana

incites the user to crime the

the Congress that marijuana insights the user to crime. In the article, Anslinger wrote,

Not long ago, the body of a young girl

they crushed on the sidewalk after a plunge from a Chicago

apartment window. Everyone called it suicide, but actually it was murder. The

killer was a narcotic known to America as marijuana and to history as hashish.

Used in the form of cigarettes, it is comparatively new to the United States

and as dangerous as a coiled

gravel snake. How many murders, suicides, and maniacal deeds it causes each

year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured. In numerous communities it thrives almost

unmolested, largely because of official ignorance of its effects. Marijuana is the unknown quantity among narcotics. No one knows

when he smokes it, whether he'll become a philosopher, a joyous reveler, a madincenseate, or a murderer. It gives few warnings of what it intends to do to the human brain.

Last year a young marijuana addict was hanged in Baltimore for criminal assault on a 10-year-old girl.

In Chicago, two marijuana smoking boys murdered a policeman.

In Florida, police found a youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse.

With an axe he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister.

He had no recollection of having committed this multiple crime, ordinarily a sane, rather quiet young man, he had become crazed from smoking marijuana.

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