Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’
(COMMON DREAMS) Nadia Prupis, March 23, 2016 — The former top domestic adviser to President Richard Nixon admitted years ago that the so-called “War on Drugs” was crafted to target black people and anti-war leftists, according to new reporting.”By getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.” —John Ehrlichmann, former aide to Richard Nixon