We found ourselves freed slowly.
You need not have familiarity with Harry Anslinger’s evil anti-cannabis crusades to know why your weed use is bound to be an issue at this weekend’s Juneteenth barbecue. Just look back to D.A.R.E., a program from the Reagan Era that took notes from Aslinger’s decades-old playbook.
All over America, D.A.R.E. brought cops into schools with anti-pot propaganda, equating weed with heroin and other hard drugs but never offering any factual background for this fear-mongering correlation. “A bunch of 10-year-olds in an auditorium on a Friday afternoon, snitching on their parents,” was the vibe, recalls Los Angeles entrepreneur and founder of Kind Cannabis Consulting, Jenny Dills.