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Never forget that the War on Drugs was fabricated to criminalize certain communities.ย
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โWe knew we couldnโt make it illegal to be either against the war or black but by getting the public to associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, 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.โ -John Ehrlichman, Aide to President Nixon.
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