"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... https://twitter.com/DEAHQ/status/1278318205652566022
"...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."

- John Ehrlichman, Nixon Domestic Policy Chief

@Jorgensen4POTUS and I will end the war on drugs. http://Joj2020.com 
Jo Jorgensen for President 2020 | LP

Jo Jorgensen is running for the Libertarian President Candidate for 2020. United States Election 2020. Dr. Jorgensen is from Greenville SC area.

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