Jacie? 🐦🐦🐦🐦"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" - John Ehrlichman, Nixon advisor
"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Sorceress Lilith Deirdre@jacethechicken
Its crazy that somehow #drugs that people have used since forever are a huge problem in the past 100 years or so...
Its almost like the drug #prohibition is causing the problems...
oh wait, the #prisonIndustry don't want us to talk about the end of the #WaronDrugs.
charlag@lilith_deirdre hashtag-speak looks weird on fedi, just fyi
Cybre Rick@jacethechicken "3/25 ― Three of John Ehrlichman’s former colleagues have disavowed the quote attributed to him, questioning whether he said it and suggesting that if he did, he may have been making a sarcastic comment. They also disputed the idea that the war on drugs was racially motivated."