Who Shot You?
Despite not being a big reader—and having defected to the Soviet Union—this Mail-Order Gun Enthusiast meandered into a book depository.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This country possesses the largest per capita prison population in the entire world
What is the United States?
Reagan refused to acknowledge this tragic public health crisis.
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
This U.S. law, passed in 1937, was one of the first to criminalize marijuana at the federal level.
What is the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937?
This U.S. President admitted to smoking marijuana in his youth but famously said, "I didn't inhale."
Who is Bill Clinton?
Unfortunately, since gun manufacturing at the time was less refined, Two pistols were not enough to take out this traitor’s intended target.
Who is Richard Lawrence?
First Lady Nancy Reagan made this phrase famous throughout the 1980s in the administration’s largest anti-drug public relations campaign
What is “Just Say No”?
Reagan used funds from this scandal to orchestrate a coup in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
This federal act recognizes the right of states to implement their own marijuana policies, unaffected by federal interference.
What is the STATES Act?
In 1986, this U.S. Senator from Florida was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting operation.
Who is Marion Barry?
This would-be assassin’s shot would have rang true if only it were not for this president’s steel glasses case and fifty-page copy of one of his speeches.
Who is John Schrank?
Despite being chemically identical, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 made punishments for possession of this type of cocaine as much as 100 times more severe than powder cocaine
What is crack cocaine?
He may be a successful painter of kittens, but he is not known his good aim.
Who is John Hinckley?
This act, introduced in 2019, aims at removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and expunging federal marijuana convictions.
What is the MORE Act?
Despite her more evolved position on the legalization marijuana in recent years, this former District Attorney oversaw the conviction of over 1900 weed-related cases in San Francisco.
Who is Kamala Harris?
An incorrigible crush on Jodie Foster and desire to impress the Taxi Driver actress drove this man to take a shot directed at an actor himself.
Who is John Hinckley Jr?
In 1986, this landmark piece of legislation increased penalties for drug possession, created mandatory-minimum sentencing guidelines for drug-related offenses, and increased funding for drug enforcement efforts.
What is the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986?
This top Reagan economic advisor for advancing trickle down economics in the United States while simultaneously destroying the Chilean economy.
Who is Milton Friedman?
This 1970 federal act classifies marijuana as a Schedule I drug alongside heroin and LSD.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
These two republican senators co-founded the House of Representatives’ Cannabis Caucus in 2017.
Who is Dana Rohrabacher and Don Young?
A Philadelphia Derringer and the Ford theater production of Our American Cousin gave occasion to this actor’s assassination attempt on the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Despite the passage of the the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, the Nixon Administration began the modern “War on Drugs” with the creation of these two federal agencies.
What is the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement and Drug Enforcement Administration?
This covert CIA operation that inadvertantly created the Taliban.
What is Operation Cyclone?
This Supreme Court case in 2005 ruled that federal anti-drug laws could be enforced even in states that had legalized medical marijuana.
What is Gonzales v. Raich?
This rock star once secretly smoked weed with President Jimmy Carter's son Chip on the White House roof.
Who is Willie Nelson?