Did you know that Richard Nixon was a drug mule for Louis Armstrong?

According to numerous reports, Nixon, the president who started the war on drugs, and who made cannabis a schedule 1 drug, smuggled three pounds of the “Devil’s Lettuce” into the United States for acclaimed entertainer Louis Armstrong.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed “Satchmo”, “Satch”, and “Pops.”

According to the book Nixon’s Secrets: The Rise, Fall and Unknown Truth About the President, Watergate and the Pardon by Roger Stone, this is what allegedly happened:


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