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Yellow Journalism and Cheech and Chong: Drug Policy in the 70s

Historical Controversies Podcast

Tags HealthMedia and CultureU.S. History

10/04/2017Chris Calton

Season 1, Episode 9. In this episode, Chris Calton explores US drug policy between the Nixon and Reagan Administrations. Calton explains how one Christmas party in the 70s undermined the first serious effort to roll back the War on Drugs.

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Chris Calton

Chris Calton is an economic historian and a former Mises Research Fellow. He was the writer and host of the Historical Controversies podcast.

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