Federal Bureau of Narcotics - wikipedia Federal Bureau of Narcotics This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ( August 2018 ) Federal Bureau of Narcotics First Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger Agency overview Formed June 14, 1930 ; 88 years ago ( 1930 - 06 - 14 ) Jurisdiction U.S. Government Parent agency Department of Justice Office of the Director of National Intelligence For the Australian bureau, see Australian Federal Police. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics ( FBN ) was an agency of the United States Department of the Treasury. Established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930 consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Narcotic Division. These older bureaus were established to assume enforcement responsibilities assigned to the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, 1914 and the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, 1922. ( aka Jones - Miller Act ) Harry J. Anslinger was appointed its first commissioner by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon under President Herbert Hoover. Under Anslinger, the bureau lobbied for harsh penalties for drug usage. The FBN is credited for criminalizing drugs such as cannabis with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, as well as strengthening the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. Even so, the main focus of the FBN was fighting opium and heroin smuggling. One instance against opium was The Opium Poppy Control Act of 1942. To that end the FBN over time established several offices overseas in France, Italy, Turkey, Beirut, Thailand and other hotspots of international narcotics smuggling. These agents ( never totaling more than 17 ) cooperated with local drug enforcement agencies in gathering intelligence on smugglers and also made undercover busts locally. The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US foreign policy considerations : during the Vietnam War for instance great importance was placed on investigating minor Vietnamese smugglers that could be connected to the resistance while investigations of large scale smugglers from the US ally Thailand were left unfinished. Anslinger retired in 1962 and was succeeded by Henry Giordano, who was the commissioner of the FBN until it was merged in 1968 with the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, an agency of the Food and Drug Administration, to form the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, an agency of the United States Department of Justice. The BNDD was a predecessor agency of the current Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ). See also Law enforcement / Law enforcement topics portal Sherman v. United States : A U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Bureau. List of United States federal law enforcement agencies References Jump up ^ `` Records of the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) ''. 15 August 2016. Jump up ^ Anslinger, Harry Jacob ; Tompkins, William F. ( 1 January 1980 ). `` The Traffic in Narcotics ''. Arno Press -- via Google Books. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federal_Bureau_of_Narcotics&oldid=864825449 '' Categories : Defunct agencies of the United States government United States Department of the Treasury History of drug control Defunct federal law enforcement agencies of the United States Drugs in the United States Government agencies established in 1930 1930 establishments in the United States 1968 disestablishments in the United States Government agencies disestablished in 1968 Hidden categories : Articles lacking in - text citations from August 2018 All articles lacking in - text citations Pages using infobox government agency with unknown parameters Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 19 October 2018, at 18 : 30 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: when was the federal bureau of narcotics (now the dea) established
Answer: June 14, 1930