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“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did”

In 2016, Dan Baum who wrote 1996’s “Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure,” wrote for Harpers Magazine giving some more insight into one particularly relevant interview he had conducted while researching his book. Baum spoke with John Ehrlichman, an aide in Nixon’s White House who was convicted in the […]

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The Racist Origins of Drug Prohibition

Drug use for medicinal, recreational and spiritual purposes has been happening around the world for all of recorded history, and has been present in North America’s settler culture since colonization began. The prohibition of certain substances and the criminalization of possession and use are relatively recent developments in global history, and the impact of these […]

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