“Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.”

— Jimmy Carter

Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977

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