“Did we know we were lying?”

There’s been a “war on drugs” for at least 100 years, but it went into warp overdrive under Richard Nixon.

Why?

Now, at last we know.

It was a political game to excuse attacks on the the black community and the anti-war movement.

John Ehrlichman, White House Counsel in 1969.

Here’s the bottom line:

“Did we know we were lying about the drugs?”

“Of course we did.”