The Supreme Court has ruled against a broad federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana users. The decision Thursday is the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights.
This isn’t even sarcasm or a conspiracy theory. This was literally why the Feds started the war on drugs. There are records of officials talking about it, and they outright state that it was started because they wanted to criminalize historically black behaviors. Because they could then use that to target black communities.
Yep, 100%. They also wanted to target liberals, too.
“You understand what I’m 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,” Ehrlichman said. “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.”
This isn’t even sarcasm or a conspiracy theory. This was literally why the Feds started the war on drugs. There are records of officials talking about it, and they outright state that it was started because they wanted to criminalize historically black behaviors. Because they could then use that to target black communities.
Yep, 100%. They also wanted to target liberals, too.
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie