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Mar 29, 2016 · Last week, the internet exploded with a fairly shocking allegation: President Richard Nixon began America's war on drugs to criminalize black people and hippies, according to a newly revealed...
Jun 17, 2020 · Americans have been criminalizing psychoactive substances since San Francisco’s anti-opium law of 1875, but it was Ehrlichman’s boss, Richard Nixon, who declared the first “War on Drugs” in 1971...
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Mar 26, 2012 · In Nixon's eyes, drug use was rampant in 1971 not because of grand social pressures that society had a duty to correct, but because drug users were law-breaking hedonists who deserved only...
- Emily Dufton
Jun 29, 2016 · Jun 29, 2016 | Domestic Policy, News. At a press conference on June 17, 1971, President Nixon, with his newly appointed Drug authority at his side, declared drug abuse “public enemy number one.” “In order to fight and defeat this enemy,” he continued, “ it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.”. With that statement, the ...
Aug 24, 2021 · “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” To fight it, it was necessary “to wage a new, all-out offensive.” Within days, U.S. newspapers took up the metaphor. The...
- Benjamin T. Smith
Sep 28, 2023 · Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential candidate from California, played on these fears by inventing a “war on drugs,” which targeted war demonstrators and African Americans. A shrewd politician, Nixon used his war on drugs as part of his campaign even though the identified “problem” – drugs – and the articulated strategy in ...
Jul 21, 2021 · Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today, it is questionable whether anyone won the war. Millions of Black and Latino Americans have been incarcerated over drug ...
