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The War on Drugs is a failure - it's time for a smarter approach: Rogette Harris

Edit Penn Live 05 May 2016
We arrest 1.5 million people a year for marijuana (90 percent just for possession). By Rogette Harris. Most of today's illicit drugs were once legal. Cocaine was put in toothache drops marketed to children, and Marijuana was celebrated for its ability to relieve pain and nausea ...   ... John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon, commented in an interview that the basis behind the 'War on Drugs' was ... The U.S ... ....

Why America Can't Quit the Drug War

Edit Rollingstone 05 May 2016
Nixon's domestic-policy adviser, John Ehrlichman, in an interview published posthumously in Harper's this year, revealed the true aim of the Drug War was to criminalize the administration's "two enemies ... As Ehrlichman explained, "We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news." ... John McCain posed to the admiral, "there's going to be a supply."....

The Feminist Case for Marijuana Legalization

Edit Alternet 03 May 2016
The case for marijuana legalization is inclusive of just about every marginalized group. At the end of March, Harper's Magazine published a 22-year-old interview in which top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitted that the War on Drugs was largely initiated to target “black people” and “the antiwar left.”. Ehrlichman is quoted as saying. ... Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did ... Whom Does the War on Drugs Target? ... [...]....

Today in History

Edit The Miami Herald 30 Apr 2016
Today is Saturday, April 30, the 121st day of 2016. There are 245 days left in the year ... In 1900, engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi, after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers ... Roosevelt ... Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired ... ....

Trump's Middle East talk is old GOP policy

Edit CNN 28 Apr 2016
As Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman had once said, according to Daniel Yergin in "The Prize," "Conservation is not a Republican ethic." ... In what's widely considered one of the greatest tennis matches of all time, Bjorn Borg, pictured, beat fierce rival and relative newcomer John McEnroe to win his fifth straight Wimbledon title in July 1980 ... The death of John Lennon ... The shooter, John W ... Pilot John L....

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime review – disturbing history

Edit The Guardian 19 Apr 2016
... United States, you need to look beyond the usual bogeymen of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, but at the liberal lions John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson ? ... Harper’s magazine recently published an infamous interview with disgraced Nixon aide John Ehrlichman in which he said drug prohibition came about because the Nixon White House “had two enemies....

Faith leaders to tackle drug war's racial divide in Harlem as UN meets nearby

Edit The Guardian 18 Apr 2016
@JessicaGlenza ... Related. The UN’s war on drugs is a failure. Is it time for a different approach? ... Comments by a former aide to President Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, have also rippled through the social justice community, after he told a Harper’s magazine reporter that “by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities” ... ....

Martin Schram commentary: Jackie Robinson was de facto civil-rights leader

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 17 Apr 2016
Burns’ documentary did a mostly masterful job of covering the complexity of Robinson, who often championed Republicans as the party of Abraham Lincoln and even supported Richard Nixon for a while against John F ... Once inside the White House, Nixon’s counsel, John Ehrlichman, who ironically would later go to prison for his role in Nixon’s Watergate scandal cover-up, asked Hoover to send him anything the FBI had on Robinson....

U.S. Should Lead on Drug Policy at the United Nations

Edit Huffington Post 15 Apr 2016
Recent news stories revealed that President Nixon's chief domestic advisor, John D. Ehrlichman, admitted that the drug war was meant to target the antiwar left and black communities ... We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news," said Ehrlichman. "Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." ... ....

‘End The War On Drugs’ Declare Bernie Sanders And 1,000 Other World Leaders Ahead Of ...

Edit Inquisitr 14 Apr 2016
One report released earlier this year, carried out by Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Public Health and International Drug ... Reporter Dan Baum was told by former Nixon adviser official John Ehrlichman that Richard’s team did, in fact, develop the War on Drugs as a way to target two communities that they couldn’t seem to get rid of....

The Real Reason Heroin, Cocaine and Other Drugs Are Really Illegal

Edit Huffington Post 14 Apr 2016
By Tessie Castillo. Looking out at the trail of devastation and death that the heroin epidemic has left in its wake, it's hard to imagine that not long ago one could purchase the drug from a Sears catalogue ... Cocaine made its debut in toothache drops marketed to children ... But so does glue ... John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon, captured the rationale behind the War on Drugs in an interview with reporter Dan Baum ... -- ... ....

Race and the Drug War: Hundreds to Gather at Columbia University in New York City for Historic Strategy Session on the Eve of the UN Special Assembly on Drugs (Drug Policy Alliance)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. Drug Policy Alliance). Featuring Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, Columbia University Professor Dr. Carl Hart, Activist Erica Garner and More ... Last month, an article in Harper's confirmed what many have suspected all along. that the drug war was designed with the intent of destroying black communities. It quotes John Ehrlichman, Watergate co-conspirator, as saying ... Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.' ... WHAT ... WHEN....

Why Trump Supporters Are Not Bothered by His Many, Many Lies

Edit Alternet 13 Apr 2016
Voters believe Trump because, unfortunately, Trump believes in himself. Raise your hand if you believe the following. 1. Facts matter in politics. 2. A good argument should sway your opinion. 3. Elections should be about issues. I’ll assume your hand went up. That means congratulations are in order ... Only then, after the resignation of his two top aides, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, did his support finally dip below 50 percent....
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