WI US adopted 'harm reduction' drug strategy in the 1970s?

What would be the possible effects of the United States adopting 'harm reduction' strategies with regard to drug policy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, rather than waging as 'War on Drugs' from the Nixon administration onwards?

For that matter, how do you get the U.S. to adopt such policies in the first place? Butterfly away the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act with a defeat in Congress? Or, simply, have the government issue the licenses that were supposed to be issued with that act in the first place to make hemp and Marijuana sales legal to sell on the market? Halt the 'reefer madness' era of the 1950s and 1960s somehow? Have Nixon go down in 1968 to Humphrey or in 1972 to McGovern? Or, alternatively, have Nixon take seriously the recommendations of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse?
 
Well, in 1967, an LBJ commission suggested its repeal, and in 1969, the Marihuana Tax Act was partly deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in Leary vs. United States. (Yes, that Leary...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Marijuana_Tax_Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leary_v._United_States

Ah, well, thank you for the information. I was actually starting to wonder how the unconstitutional mess that is the Controlled Substances Act came into being. With that, is it possible that the Congress lets the court decision simply stand, and adopts the aforementioned harm reduction strategy?
 
I suspect that we'll probably see a crackdown on civil liberties in some other area, like pornography. Governments need scapegoats.
 
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