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Marijuana use was mostly OK until Reagan came in. Then DISCO announced a policy change.
by euroderf 3y ago
Marijuana use was mostly OK until Reagan came in. Then DISCO announced a policy change.
- drewcoo 3y agoNixon started the "war on drugs." About marijuana activists, he said: > I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.
- CameronNemo 3y agoWait... I'm Jewish?
- red-iron-pine 3y agowelcome to the tribe!
- aswanson 3y agoStay kosher, bro.
- alistairSH 3y agoPre-Reagan. “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.” -- John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy advisor, from an interview in 1994
- euroderf 3y agoYes the war on droogs predated Reagan, but marijuana use was not a disqualification for getting a clearance until Reagan's crew changed the rules.