Tag: Richard Nixon
Lessons from Decades of Tobacco Regulatory Fights
Fifty-one years ago, President Richard Nixon signed legislation banning television and radio advertisements for cigarettes. That was just the beginning of the tobacco industry's...
Luke Scarmazzo: California’s Last Federal Medical Marijuana Prisoner
YAZOO CITY, Miss. -- June 17 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the day President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. Since that day in 1971, California...
Poll: War on Drugs Did More Harm than Good
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The vast majority of Americans—83 percent—believe the war on drugs has been a spectacular failure leading only to increased drug-related harms...
Border Wall? Cannabis Legalization Could Actually be the Best way to Reduce Flow of...
A border wall along the entire southern border would surely be the best way to cut off the flow of illegal drugs from Mexico...
Presidents on Pot
Since it's President's Day, we thought we would describe where some our former Commander in Chief's stood on pot. We decided to leave some...
