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?
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?