2026-09-18 15:09 UTC
@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social @evan@cosocial.ca Nope. MJ was prohibited in the '20s, '30s. Nothing to do with the American - Vietnam War.
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@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social 2026-09-18 20:52
@boggin@mastodon.scot @evan@cosocial.ca “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. “ - President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman