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Feeling nostalgically angry this morning. 
Tweet from @pukeRainbows 
Follows a quote from John Ehrlichman, who was Nixon’s counsel and Asst. for Domestic Affairs 
“The Nixon White House…had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people...by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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@MelodyCooper

That doesnt make sense. If it was done for attrition purposes the effects wouldnt benefit Nixon until well after he is out of office. If done simply as an excuse to target leaders, then those people werent drug users. Which means the drug charges were made up, which means there was no need to make drugs illegal to do it, you could have just as easily made up a similar heinous charge and used that to justify the arrest.

The logic here makes absolutely no sense.

Melody Cooper

@freemo You’re ignoring or not understanding the intentional longer range and broader plans beyond Nixon, in place before Nixon and intended to last well past his infamous presidency.

@MelodyCooper Not ignoring or misunderstanding it. The statement here is explicitly stating it was done because of Nixon's enemies. So any long term effects beyond Nixon are moot given the proposed reasoning here.

@MelodyCooper

Also you are missing the point it is literally factually wrong and the actual events that took place are the exact opposite... namely, that heroin was illegal for 44 years before nixon and that Nixon actually **lessened** the penalty for simple possession, he didnt increase the criminality he reduced it.