When the Drug Enforcement Administration marked its 50th anniversary last year, it had spent over $1 trillion partly to enforce Richard Nixon's 1970 Controlled Substances Act, the cornerstone of ...

Richard Nixon’s Oval Office tapes reveal his ... Nixon called for an all-out offensive not long after signing the Controlled Substances Act, which made marijuana a Schedule I narcotic, which ...

President Richard Nixon’s remarks were captured on ... marijuana use illegal under federal law, signing the Controlled Substances Act, which established a five-tier classification system ranking ...

That’s what Richard Nixon asked H. R ... Under the Nixon’s administration’s Controlled Substances Act, marijuana was listed as a “Schedule 1” drug with no medical value and the potential ...

Disgraced Attorney General John Mitchell of the Nixon administration placed ... “scheduling” of all drugs under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. Schedule I drugs are deemed to have no ...

The MORE Act also creates pathways ... that it was instead born out of President Richard Nixon's "cynical" view on cannabis and other controlled substances. Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in ...

His timing was less than fortuitous. In 1970, the year after Nichols started grad school, Richard Nixon signed into law the Controlled Substances Act, designed to clamp down on the manufacture and ...

to ironically “celebrate” Richard Nixon’s signing of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970. The “Thanks, Dick” campaign recognizes the destructive consequences of the Controlled ...

"America's public enemy number one," President Richard Nixon proclaimed ... In October 1970, Nixon had signed the Controlled Substances Act into law, which categorized marijuana as a Schedule ...