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Podcast: Progressive Faith Sermons - Dr. Roger Ray
Episode: Guess Who Won't Be At Christmas Dinner
Description: In 1971, in the early days of the "War on Drugs," then President Nixon appointed a commission to study marijuana and to release their results and policy suggestions. More than 80 people worked for most of a year to produce a nearly 4000 page long report and even though Nixon commissioned the study, the results were that pot was no more dangerous than alcohol and they recommended that it be decriminalized and managed in the same way as alcohol in the interests of public health. The report even named the danger of the growing trend of incarceration on marijuana charges which was...