Prof. Carl Hart on modern reefer madness:
Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics (predecessor of the Drug Enforcement
Administration) declared, “Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug
in the history of mankind.”Seven decades and hundreds of studies later, we no longer have an excuse
for indulging the myth of “reefer madness.” It has no place in our
courts — which means Mr. Martin’s toxicology report doesn’t, either.