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But that's one of the main driving forces of puritanism, which is what the war on drugs is mostly about.

• d0lph 10y ago
  To the contrary, to quote Nixon's aide (Nixon having started the war on drugs): “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. 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. 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.” [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us_56f16a0ae4b03a640a6bbda1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us...]
  • elcct 10y ago
    And that caused black religious communities to join the war as they didn't want to be associated with drugs: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19860723&id=szMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nuUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7069,4599812&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19860723&id=... "Just as in the past we fought slavery and we fought racism, we are going to fight drugs and the total indifference of those in power"