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"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 Erlichman, advisor to President Richard Nixon — PolitiTweet.org

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Nixon advisor John Erlichman said openly, "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..." — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 50 years since 1971, the war on drugs has poured millions of dollars into law enforcement agencies and led to deadly police violence and abuse, largely in communities of color. — PolitiTweet.org

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