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Eliminating the scourge of drugs in America was Nancy Reagan's brainchild, and it was a very laudable goal. The fact that it was so ham-fistedly and wrongly imp
by kstenerud 6y ago
Eliminating the scourge of drugs in America was Nancy Reagan's brainchild, and it was a very laudable goal. The fact that it was so ham-fistedly and wrongly implemented, and co-opted for repressive purposes doesn't diminish the nobility of the original goal that gave birth to such a monster.
- fuzzfactor 6y agoBack in the 1970's it was plain to see that a Nixon initiative such as a drug war was not congruous with a free country in the same way that an absolute prohibition on alcohol was not. The first Nixon election was actually the birth of the monster which enabled such a multi-generation debacle. Regardless of how toxic and harmful alcohol and drugs have been for millennia. Turns out Nixon was not only misinformed, he also had a crooked streak. History shows that the Reagan mishandling of a free country occurred afterward. I not only witnessed all of this first hand, it has been a painful experience. You should have seen what a free country was like beforehand.