Carl Sagan's newly revealed letters about the war on drugs

The late Carl Sagan, renowned astrophysicist and former host of Cosmos, reportedly used marijuana. He also had a lot of questions about the scientific validity of the war on drugs, according to papers recently published by the Library of Congress and compiled by Tom Angell, founder of the pro-legalization Marijuana Majority. In a 1990 letter to drug policy reformers, Sagan suggested that reformers organize themselves to rebut Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercials that he felt "routinely make gross distortions of the scientific facts."  continue