The La Guardia Committee Report
The only authoritative voice that opposed Anslinger's campaign against cannabis was the one of the Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia, who appointed in 1938 a commission of investigation, and in 1944 strongly objected to Anslinger's campaign with the famous La Guardia Committee.
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