Harper’s Magazine, Where ‘Legalize It All’ Means More Taxes and State Control of Drugs
March 21st, 2016In the piece below, there’s no mention of the fact that the CIA has been in the narcotics trafficking business for decades, which is an interesting tidbit to leave out of an article about disastrous drug policies.
With that elephant in the room, let’s all gasp in shock with the author about the Nixon administration screwing over hippies and black people. In 2016, that’s a startling revelation. Right?
Disclosure: Before the Internet, I used to subscribe to Harper’s, but I soon came to realize that the content was intended for a certain mental demographic to which I didn’t belong.
Do you own a recumbent bicycle?
Do you have tenure?
Despite bleeding from your ass after decades of thinking that the Democrats have your best interests in mind, are you voting for Hillary in 2016? *Not a Trump endorsement*
If you answered yes to any or all of the above questions, you might like Harper’s.
With that out of the way and knowing what we know about government involvement in narcotics trafficking, I found it hilarious that the author of this piece goes on to call for, “A government monopoly on distribution,” to drug consumers.
*chortle*
You’re in luck, Mr. Baum, because the government is already operating a global wholesale narcotics distribution network…which is pretty reliable, except when it isn’t.
Via: Harper’s:
I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “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. 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.”
I must have looked shocked.
