A Stalinist Invention
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:44 am
Nixon went after cannabis to jail his political enemies. The essence of Stalinism.
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it." - John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
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I'm passing that around to the usual suspects. We'll see if it catches on. Republican Stalinists. What a hoot.
About 63% of young Republicans favor legalization. Evidently Stalinism is not as popular as it once was. The end is nigh.
"Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue...that we couldn't resist it." - John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
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I'm passing that around to the usual suspects. We'll see if it catches on. Republican Stalinists. What a hoot.
About 63% of young Republicans favor legalization. Evidently Stalinism is not as popular as it once was. The end is nigh.