Fifty-Four Years Ago Today—The Beatles Insisted the UK Legalize Weed in Newspaper Ad

[ad_1] Paying for an expensive full-page ad to run in the London Times on July 24, 1967, The Beatles and band manager Brian Epstein joined a few dozen activists to urge lawmakers—insistently—to legalize pot in the U.K. All four band members smoked and liked cannabis—but especially Paul McCartney, who repeatedly describes cannabis as being transformative …

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