Mar 23, 2016 · Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." Ehrlichman's comment is the first time the war on drugs has been plainly characterized as a political assault designed to help Nixon ...
Mar 22, 2016 · Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." This is an incredibly blunt, shocking response — one with troubling implications for the …
Mar 28, 2016 · Of course we did.” Did we know we were lying? Of course we did. Here's how that part of the conversation ended: I must have looked shocked. Ehrlichman just shrugged. Then he looked at his watch, handed me a signed copy of his steamy spy novel, The Company, and led me to the door. This is a master example of the "say anything, do anything to win" mentality. It's …
United States President Richard Nixon announced a ‘War on Drugs’ in 1971 – a declaration that continues to have a lasting impact on the way people who use drugs are treated worldwide.
The number of people being put behind bars increased as the media ran scare campaigns about how ‘crack’ cocaine ‘shatters lives’. In 1980, just under 41,000 people were in U.S. prisons for drug crimes.
If Ehrlichman’s declaration is anything to go by, for the prohibitionists, some may say the War on Drugs has been a success. There are clear winners, while others have lost.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.
Baum's argument: Drug prohibition began with poor intentions, it has contributed to terrible consequences (racial disparities in the justice system and drug-fueled violence around the world), and it has failed to significantly curtail drug abuse and trafficking.
It could allow for the medical use of some drugs, such as psychedelics, as some researchers have pushed for. These are steps countries and states could take without legalizing drugs. Baum does, however, acknowledge that even if a country does legalize, there are various ways to do it.
Short and impossibly ugly. To lack a conscience is to lack any inner sense of what's right and wrong. In extreme situations, the medical condition is described as psychopathy or sociopathy. Jeffrey Dahmer (pictured above) was conscienceless. He trapped, killed and ate people without remorse. He caused great harm because it pleased him to do so.
Short and impossibly ugly. To lack a conscience is to lack any inner sense of what's right and wrong. In extreme situations, the medical condition is described as psychopathy or sociopathy. Jeffrey Dahmer (pictured above) was conscienceless. He trapped, killed and ate people without remorse. He caused great harm because it pleased him to do so.