Nixon on Drugs
November 24th, 2008 by Nick Saint
In the interest of fairness, here are some excerpts from our former president’s conversations about legalizing marijuana:
You see, homosexuality, dope, immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That’s why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff, they’re trying to destroy us.
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Now, this is one thing I want. I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana. Can I get that out of this sonofabitching, uh, Domestic Council? I mean one on marijuana that just tears the ass out of them. I see another thing in the news summary this morning about it. You know it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them? I suppose it’s because most of them are psychiatrists, you know, there’s so many, all the greatest psychiatrists are Jewish. By God we are going to hit the marijuana thing, and I want to hit it right square in the puss
In the spirit of actual, non-snarky fairness, I should point out that Nixon didn’t think marijuana users should go to jail. So a guy who thought the legalization movement was a jewish/communist conspiracy to destroy our country was in favor of much saner legislation than we have on the books today.
