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War on Drugs (1980's) (jan 1, 1980 – jan 1, 1990)

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The War on Drugs was an initiative of the Nixon administration that combated "public enemy number one" - drug abuse. However, many historians have been outspoken in saying that the initiative had racist objectives. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy chief, was quoted as saying that the Nixon administration had two enemies: "the antiwar left and black people". Ehrlichman even went further, saying, "We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. 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.”

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jan 1, 1980
jan 1, 1990
~ 10 years

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