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Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was 'Not Particularly Dangerous'

The recordings demonstrate yet again that drug warriors always knew marijuana wasn't that bad—they just didn't care.

Reason

It's time to deschedule marijuana

Rescheduling cannabis opens the door to reform, but not wide enough

Salon

Editorial: After decades of discriminatory enforcement, rethinking marijuana laws is long overdue

President Joe Biden has taken the first steps to move beyond more than 50 years of failed drug policy. Earlier this month, the president directed his administration to begin the process that would remove marijuana from the list of the most dangerous illicit drugs, which includes heroin and LSD, and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Rest In Peace Judge Silberman

We lost a legal legend.

Reason

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back

WASHINGTON — “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate,” Richard Nixon once said.

Tribune News Service

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back - Roll Call

“The Martha Mitchell Effect” aims to put the loudest, brashest Cabinet wife back where she belongs — right at the center of American history.

Roll Call

Wallowing in Watergate 50 years later: A political quiz

Fifty years later, the Watergate scandal is remembered in broad strokes

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‘I’m living in the bubble’: the man who helped bring Nixon down, 50 years on

John Dean speaks on the 1972 Watergate break-in and why he has never been more concerned about US democracy than now

The Guardian - US

50 years after the Watergate break-in, John Dean relives the scandal that changed his life

LOS ANGELES — After John Dean gave his historic 1973 testimony on the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down the Nixon White House, he wanted to move on with his life.

Los Angeles Times

‘Gaslit’: Julia Roberts skillfully settles into the ’70s as Martha Mitchell, a Watergate wife who wouldn’t be silent

She’s electric opposite Sean Penn, playing corrupt Nixon aide John Mitchell in the darkly funny Starz series.

Chicago Sun-Times

It ‘opened my eyes’: Rep. Jim Costa on the summer of ’73 - Roll Call

He stood in line to get a seat at the Watergate hearings as a young intern during a summer away from the family's California farm.

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