Nixon’s War on Drugs was really a war on African Americans.
Source – naturalnewsblogs.com
– “…Former aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States’ war on drugs… John Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison for his central role in the Watergate scandal, was Nixon’s chief domestic advisor when the president announced the “war on drugs” in 1971”
Marijuana-the war on drugs was a race war that had nothing to do with the plant – By Thomasina Copenhaver
The Drug War was officially declared on June 17, 1971 when President Nixon claimed drugs to be “Public Enemy Number One.” But was that really the case? Could there have been another far deeper, carefully calculated plan that had nothing to do with marijuana?
It was a different time. Or perhaps not. In a nation struggling with civil strife, poverty, racial inequality/tension, corporate domination, ecological disasters, and a hated, highly protested Vietnam War—sharing a…
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…and the war continues…… We are indeed, a battle-weary people! But as long as we live, there is going to be no let up.
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I sure hope so, Shelby. I also hope you got over your sinusitis. Sinus infections are the bane of my existence. I find them quite paralyzing.
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Thank you Dr. Bramhall! I am sorry that you are having quite the problem with them as well. SIGH!
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