Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot

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This is a March 2002, Alternet article on how marijuana ended up a Schedule I substance. In that Obama has never given the slightest inclination to consider moving marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule III substance, he chooses to continue Nixon's insane WoD policy in general and jihad against MM in particular.

From the article:

Once-Secret "Nixon Tapes" Show Why the U.S. Outlawed Pot Lumping marijuana, homosexuality, Jews and Commies into one grand conspiracy, a paranoid Richard Nixon launched America's "war on pot" 30 years ago.

Thirty years ago the United States came to a critical juncture in the drug war. A Nixon-appointed presidential commission had recommended that marijuana use not be a criminal offense under state or federal law. But Nixon himself, based on his zealous personal preferences, overruled the commission's research and doomed marijuana to its current illegal status.

http://www.alternet.org/story/12666/

Edited to fix title.