NARCO-POLITIK: Was The ‘War on Drugs’ Really A Race War That Had Nothing To Do With Marijuana?

Nixon’s War on Drugs was really a war on African Americans.

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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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