paulsen 'echos the line', and lumps Nixon with Morality:
"-- The Controlled Substances Act and Nixon's War on Drugs were in response to rampant drug use in the 60's. --"
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Lumping marijuana, homosexuality, Jews and Commies into one grand conspiracy, a paranoid Richard Nixon launched America's "war on pot" 30 years ago. Here are the tapes to prove it.
Once-Secret "Nixon Tapes" Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot
Address:http://www.alternet.org/story/12666/
Your Shafer Commission didn't limit themselves to marijuana, by the way. They also recommended that the distinctions between licit and illicit drugs be dropped, finding that "the use of drugs for pleasure or other non-medical purposes is not inherently irresponsible".
Bunch of Libertarian whack-jobs.