Battle Zone
January, 2004
Marijuana ReformWhen we began: When the Forum first appeared in 1963, Playboy lived in a world of jazz, late-night clubs and edgy comedians. We saw firsthand the effect of drugs—and of drug laws. The feds had regulated weed since 1937; in 1970 Congress declared it to be as dangerous as heroin. Readers wrote often with stories of outrageous sentences, such as a married couple in Ohio given 20- to 40-year sentences for sharing $5 worth of pot with a neighbor, and the Dallas man who received life f...
