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Why is Marijuana singled out? Indeed, that is the sticking point.

We know that racism played a major role in marijuana prohibition, but Richard Nixon deserves a prize for rejecting his own panel's finding and recommendations and instigating the war on some drugs, especially marijuana. The social upheavals in the 60's and fear of a counter culture and hippies, lives on in the minds and policies of people in power. And, of course, the press is in lock step with the paranoia. Fear sells more papers than enlightenment.