TIL that the war on drugs was persecuted as a personal crusade by one man. During his 31 year career,Harry Anslinger helped shape global drugs policy and ordered that a dying Billie Holiday be handcuffed to her death bed

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger#Later_years



Submitted March 22, 2015 at 05:58PM by yawningangel http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zwcku/til_that_the_war_on_drugs_was_persecuted_as_a/