The Playboy Forum

April, 1974

The Real EvilI think I've finally found out why marijuana is illegal. It's not because it causes brain or chromosome damage, leads to a career of crime or makes users break out in acne. The real menace is explained in a Longview (Washington) Daily News story about a community antidrug group called the Cowlitz Drug Council:Calling [marijuana] "the most insidious thing let loose on America," Dr. Dawson recommended the C.D.C. members try marijuana, as he had, so they could see how it work...

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