According to a longtime activist, Jimmy Carter wanted to decriminalize marijuana in the '70s.
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Stroup's relationship with Bourne blew up after a rumor leaked that Bourne did a line of cocaine at a NORML party, a story that Stroup admits to leaking to the press after he felt the drug czar wasn't moving fast enough with pot reform. Bourne was forced to resign, Stroup was ousted by NORML's board, and marijuana's connection with the White House was gone. Ronald Reagan was elected less than two years later, with the Just Say No and D.A.R.E. programs coming right behind.
Now, I will say, Jimmy Carter did send a message to Congress to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. That never happened, obviously, and after the Bourne event, it didn't come up again for a while. But we never had a committee hearing or vote in Congress on this. It's easy for people to look back and say we missed a good shot.
We were losing a lot of support every year until California resurfaced in the ’90s with medical marijuana, which was a new way to look at it. In the ’70s, everything was about decriminalizing the user, but, the issue was allowing patients to use marijuana as medicine. That was a new, reasonably appealing way to present marijuana reform to people who didn't smoke.
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