Taken together with the crucial backstory provided by the late David McGowan’s highly-acclaimed underground revisionist classic on the 1960s-1970s counter-culture’s effect on American rock’ n’ roll music, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream, all one can say is that in the immortal words of the Buffalo Springfield’s For What Its Worth — “There’s Something Happening Here – What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear.”
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people,” Mr Ehrlichman said in the 1994 interview.
“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 criminalising both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
“We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes… and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Hypocrisy at its MOST BLATANT...change is long overdue.
Look 4 TRUMP 2 DEcriminalize THC-based products @ the Federal Level within the next 18-24 months. That will leave all enforcement/taxation/regulation up to the States, as it should be, iMho...MUD
