Reply #6: Ah yes, the 70s. [View All]

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I think that was all opportunistic. Ultimately, Anslinger's original purpose was racist and police state oriented. The whole drug war, from it's very beginning, has been an invaluable asset for enemies of Constitutional protections. Consider the variety of ways that the plain English meaning of the various parts of the Bill of Rights have been violated in the name of drug prohibition and catching "pushers".

It is no accident that drug prohibition was cranked up right about the time alcohol prohibition was abandoned.