eli5: when and why did cannabis become demonized in the USA?

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eli5: when and why did cannabis become demonized in the USA?

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Thank Henry Anslinger. The first Commisioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was strongly anti-drug and racist. In the 1930s he began a campaign that targeted Cannabis but also linked it to race and further demonized it as the cause for crime.. Look at *Reefer Madness*