The Playboy Forum
September, 1972
The President Knows BestPresident Nixon's use of tax money to finance the committees and study groups he appoints seems to be an absurd waste of public funds. For example, he assigned a panel of experts to determine the effects of marijuana on its users. But when the panel reported that marijuana seems to be harmless and that existing penalties for using it are too severe, the findings were promptly ignored and Nixon, who apparently knows more about the evils of pot smoking than any expert, appr...