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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 14:54, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Copyright
edit- Basically, everything is copyright unless it says it isn't and you can't use copyright material without explicit permission from the owner. The text Ailsa Mellon-Bruce should be removed but I don't have time to do it right now (as I have to get to a meeting) and you might well have rewritten it by the time I get back. It's quite simple to do by rephrasing but it must be "substantially" different (i.e. different in substance, not just one word changed.) These sites are good sources of info but you must rewrite and not simply cut and paste. Thanks for your contribution and please continue to learn more and contribute.Cutler 17:07, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
- I'd say that User:Wetman has done just enough to the article! Cutler 17:19, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Republican Congressman Stephen G. Porter, a long-time congressional expert on narcotics and member of the American delegation to the Geneva opium conferences, persuaded a large number of his fellow congressmen to support his move to set up a new Bureau of Narcotics within the US Treasury Department. On 12 August 1930 his plan was adopted and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) came into existence. Porter, who was a Congressman for Pennsylvania, did not live to see his achievement for he died of cancer on 27 June in Pittsburgh.
Anslinger was appointed the first commissioner of the FBN, his appointment ratified by President Herbert Hoover the following month and confirmed by the US Senate in December. It seems likely that Porter had put Anslinger's name forward for the latter's wife, Martha Denniston, was politically connected through her uncle, Andrew Mellon, who was Secretary of the Treasury, and moreover her family were exceedingly wealthy steel mill owners and major contributors to the Republican Party. A staunch Republican himself, Anslinger received a salary of nine thousand dollars per annum and the brief to supervise, regulate and enforce the law concerning both licit and illicit habit-forming drugs within the USA.
Cannabis: a history by Martin Booth St Martin's Press, 2004 0-312-42494-9