Re:After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doin...
by thaumasiotes on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:37PM
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That quote doesn't really support the idea that "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities." Instead, it supports the idea that Nixon thought drugs undermined society and stamping out drug use was valuable for its own sake.
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Re:After 50 years of the war on drugs, 'what good is it doin...
by howenterprisey on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:39PM
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Yes. It's roughly as indefensible, though.