Marihuana, A Signal of Misunderstanding.
Health effects are minimal.
The answer, it said, lies not in its pharmacological properties. Many see the drug as fostering a counterculture which conflicts with basic moral precepts as well as with the operating functions of our society. These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background. The commission was telling Nixon, in effect, that the real marijuana problem wasn't the drug, but the war on the drug.