When Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, got his mandate in 1930 to rid America of its drugs vice, he set his eyes on practitioners of jazz music which he called black man’s music. As Johann Hari explains in hisbookChasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs,...
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