The Nixon administration used marijuana, and heroin, to get “the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin,” says Tom Lobianco of CNN. Marijuana was first made illegal under a lie. Nixon’s administration knew that it was false too. Not only did they wrongfully illegalize marijuana, they also lumped it in the same category as heroin. Currently marijuana is a schedule I drug, along with heroin. The definition of a schedule I drug is a drug that is highly addictive, with no currently accepted medical use: both of these are false, not to mention marijuana, according to the DEA, is more dangerous than cocaine and methamphetamines. Marijuana has about a nine percent addiction rate, tobacco has a 32% addiction rate,
