Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widespread use of marijuana, sometimes by their own children, is leading many Middle Americans toward a bit more sophistication, an ability to distinguish between the use of pot and harder drugs. For some months of his presidency, the distinction seemed lost on Nixon and his Justice Department, whose crackdown on marijuana induced a pot famine and sent many of the young to amphetamines, barbiturates and other more serious drugs. Said Abbie Hoffman with typical hyperbole: "Richard Nixon was becoming the biggest pill pusher of them all." At a White House conference on narcotics in December, Nixon confessed: "I thought that...