Playboy Panel: The Drug Revolution

February, 1970

Playboy Panel: the Drug RevolutionPanelistsHarry J. Anslinger, 77, graduated from Penn State in 1915 and obtained a law degree in 1930 from American University. A Government civil servant from 1918 to 1963, he served under nine Presidents and early in his career held consular posts in the Netherlands, Germany, Venezuela and the Bahamas. Once assistant commissioner of Prohibition, he helped make the dry years dry, then moved on to serve 33 years as commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics and is w...