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