Two years after former President Richard Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, he was recorded saying that he knew marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” The remarks were part of a set of tapes that were only recently made widely available.
President Richard Nixon’s remarks were captured on his secret White House recording system but had eluded the notice of leading Nixon era historians until now.
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Pssst the point was to invent reasons to target black people bc weed at the time was seen as a “black” drug
Prohibition did not solve any problem in the US and has been a wrecking ball for Mexico and the rest of us in Latin America. Time to face up the fact that, as The Onion put it, the drugs won this war.
But it was a good excuse to arrest hippies.
It's as dangerous as alcohol, perhaps more harmful as to brain function LT.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman said
One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview re...
So glad he's dead.
Induces psychosis massively dangerous.
Again, really wish @dicknixon.bsky.social was active on this platform.