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       Drug War Confessional“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?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. 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.”~ John Ehrlichman, 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘕𝘪𝘹𝘰𝘯https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional