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Secret Tapes Reveal Nixon’s Views on Marijuana

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Two years after launching the war on drugs, President Richard Nixon made a startling admission during a meeting in the Oval Office. He said that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” The remarks, captured by the former president’s secret recording system, bolster the notion that the criminalization of marijuana was driven by politics. Ernesto Londoño, a New York Times reporter who covers drug use and counternarcotics policy, explains.

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Canada’s Cannabis Capital | On Drugs

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As federal legalization of Marijuana approaches, we look at how one small town in Eastern Ontario has reversed its fortunes on the promise of a marijuana economy and what a vision for cannabis tourism could soon look like in reality.

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The Truth About Medical Marijuana

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A panel of legal and medical experts join author Ed Rosenthal in a discussion on the impact of state laws allowing medical marijuana versus federal efforts to override all decriminalization statutes in this forum sponsored by the Independent Institute, Harper’s Magazine and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
Series: “Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley” [3/2004] [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 8463]