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Politics over science (and common sense), again. A Watergate beleaguered Richard Nixon wastecans his own National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommendations, condemning the United States to another three decades of dark ages, 100 billion mispent $$ (1), and 14 million arrests (2).
When the blue ribbon panel, headed by Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Ray Shafer, submitted its report, recommending decriminalization of personal use marijuana, Nixon trashed it, commenting in private: every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish." (3)
For the full report, click here: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm
(footnote) sources:
(1) National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, "Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us" (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001), p. 1; Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2005 National Drug Control Strategy.
(2)Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, 1973-Current
(3)Nixon Tapes, Conversation 505-4, May 26, 1971.
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