Buffalo in the 70s: News editorial takes note of ‘Spreading marijuana ordeal’

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
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This Buffalo News editorial, published 45 years ago,  looks at the issues surrounding the criminalization of marijuana. At the time, President Richard Nixon and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had called for reducing penalties for simple marijuana possession to “a level that does not ruin the accused for life.”