It was in 1970 when the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supported extensive research on marijuana which proved marijuana highly dangerous. Through the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana was classified as a Drug with “No Accepted Medical Use.”
Although the Schafer Commission report in 1972 recommended removing marijuana from the the scheduling system and decriminalizing it, President Nixon rejected its recommendation noting in a televised news conference on May 1, 1971, with these words:
“I am against legalizing marijuana. Even if the Commission does recommend that it be legalized, I will not follow that recommendation…I can see no social or moral justification whatever for legalizing marijuana. It think it wold be exactly the wrong step. It would simply encourage more and more of our young people to start down the long, dismal road that leads to hard drugs and eventually self-destruction.”
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