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50 Years After Nixon’s Commission Declared Criminal Laws Were ‘Too Harsh’ on Pot Users, the Federal Ban Remains in Place

By Brooke Kaufman

March of 2022 marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon’s National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse issued its report, Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding. The panel, chaired by former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer, was appointed just one year after President Nixon described drug abuse as ...

 

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