STATEMENT OF H. J. ANSLINGER

  This drug is as old as civilization itself. Homer wrote about, as a drug that made me forget their homes, and that turned them into swine. In Persia, a thousand years before Christ, there was a religious and military order founded which was called the Assassins and they derived their name from the drug called hashish which is now known in this country as marihuana. They were noted for their acts of cruelty, and the word "assassin"                                              very aptly describes the drug.

When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.
Barack Obama

Ronald Reagan

    I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is       equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast