Read the American History before you go LOLLING!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
Originally Posted by CG2014
From the article you posted:
“Nixon's role reviewed
Decades later, a controversial quote attributed to John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy advisor,
claimed that the war on drugs was fabricated to undermine the anti-war movement and African-Americans. In a 2016 Harper's cover story, Ehrlichman, who died in 1999,[139] was quoted from journalist Dan Baum's 1994 interview notes: "... by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."[140][141][142][143] The veracity of the quote was challenged by Ehrlichman's children,[144] and Nixon-era officials.[145] In the end, the increasingly punitive reshaping of US drug policy by later administrations was most responsible for creating some of the conditions Ehrlichman described.”
Note the red highlighted comment. This is not necessarily proven, but is consistent with what Nixon tried to do during his administration.
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