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A part of Ronald Reagan's expansive war on drugs, the 'just say no' campaign was an advertising effort to discourage children from trying illicit drugs.

It is rumored that psychedelic drugs were first introduced as a de-stigmatized phenomenon by professor Timothy Leary at Harvard University, when he conducted research into the effects of marijuana and psilocybin on users. President Nixon once called…

In 1971, President Richard Nixon started increasing size of drug controlling agencies and inflicting harsh penalties such as mandatory sentencing and arrests without warrants. He also enacted the Controlled Substances Act, as well as establishing the…

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Oftentimes, hippies would get together and drop acid. The usual dosage for LSD users would be 10-15 micrograms. However, Hippies would spike a party punch bowl with as many as 10,000 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide

Ronald Reagan gives this address to Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) at a 1975 meeting. He talks about how to use bold banners, not pale pastels, when activists advance conservative ideas.