# Canadian and U.S. narcotics officials meet on marihuana control, Washington, 24 March 1937 or 1938 (Library of Congress)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/loc-2016873283-sharman-anslinger-gibbons/

Harris & Ewing photograph of Col. C.H.L. Sharman, Chief of Canadian Narcotic Control, Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Stephen B. Gibbons, at a meeting on cooperation in marihuana control. A copy is stored here.

The caption describes a meeting between the Canadian narcotic control chief and U.S. Treasury officials on closer cooperation in marihuana control, and names, left to right, Col. C.H.L. Sharman, Chief of Canadian Narcotic Control; Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics; and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Stephen B. Gibbons. The record's title text ends "3/24/37," while its date field gives 1938 March 24. Both come from the Library's unverified caption data, so this page gives the date as 24 March 1937 or 1938.

The subject is marihuana control between the two countries, not organized crime. The photograph is filed here as a record of the Bureau of Narcotics and its commissioner. The copy stored here is the Library's 640-pixel service JPEG.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016873283/