> the "war on drugs" has been a miserable failure that has been, for the most part, a footgun. It has accomplished everything its proponents hoped for and much

> the "war on drugs" has been a miserable failure that has been, for the most part, a footgun. It has accomplished everything its proponents hoped for and much more. "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” - John Ehrlichman, assistant to the president for domestic affairs under Richard Nixon