When You Hear The Words “The War on Drugs,” What Does That Mean to You?

If you watch Fox News or read Breitbart or some other propaganda machine, you probably think this is literal terminology. To anyone (like myself) who has been a victim of the “War on Drugs” or just arrested in general, you probably realize we police largely based on race. Hence, the war on drugs is not a war on drugs at all, but rather a war on people, specifically minorities.

All you have to do is sit in holding at a jail – something I experienced when my grow was busted in 2014 – and you realize very quickly that the proportion of minorities in holding is much higher than what you see just outside the jail. So how does that happen? Charlie Kirk (fuck that dude, even in death) would say that Black people commit a disproportional amount of crime compared to white people. Well, even if that were the case, I would attribute that to systematic disenfranchisement, but I think it’s more about racial profiling, which is not the same thing, but they are related.

It’s common sense to people who have done “drugs” that hypocrisy is alive and well in the United States propaganda complex. The amount of Big Pharma ads I see on TV is just appalling, not to mention the drugs allowed in our food system by the FDA. These are all man-made, chemical-laced products. But if you want to use an all-natural herb like cannabis or a fungus like magic mushrooms, you are cast as a villain.

Nixon Advisor Admits the War on Drugs was Designed to Criminalize Black People

According to an excerpt from Equal Justice Initiative President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman admitted that the war on drugs was a lie:

In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:
“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.”

Tricky Dick up to his usual shenanigans no doubt

I just got a little nauseous copying and pasting that quote. Like, are you fucking kidding me? These are the people who have sworn to protect us.

The Shafer Commission

It’s worth mentioning that when Nixon asked a large sample of doctors to do studies on the harms of cannabis (known as the Shafer Commission), and the vast majority concluded it was basically harmless, he went with the minority of doctors who said it was harmful simply because he knew that a “war on anything” was a good campaign strategy. Well, if you turn yourself into a hammer, everything becomes a nail. Do I really have to bring up Watergate right now, if anyone is unfamiliar with how Nixon’s presidency came crashing down?

I’m sure if I scoured the internet, I could find countless examples of this type of toxic bullshit. What I’m referring to specifically is the government turning on its own people for personal gain. A lot of people think we are really the worst off we’ve ever been with Trump at the helm, and while I totally understand why, we have been putting these corrupt stooge pieces of shit in the Oval Office for a long fucking time, and I’m really getting sick of it.

Democracy is great in theory. But it’s contingent on money corrupting our elections and the ability of constituents to be able to cut through the lies and vote in a way that actually benefits them. If the last election is not a blatant example of the latter being much tougher than it should be, I don’t know what is. One Love.

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