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Feeling nostalgically angry this morning. Tweet from @pukeRainbows Follows a quote from John Ehrlichman, who was Nixon’s counsel and Asst. for Domestic Affairs “The Nixon White House…had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people...by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” ...
Doc Freemo 
That doesnt make sense. If it was done for attrition purposes the effects wouldnt benefit Nixon until well after he is out of office. If done simply as an excuse to target leaders, then those people werent drug users. Which means the drug charges were made up, which means there was no need to make drugs illegal to do it, you could have just as easily made up a similar heinous charge and used that to justify the arrest.
The logic here makes absolutely no sense.
Well, you're free to look for context.
As we already covered in the thread the quote is known to be likely fake, and the content is coubterfactual so is clearly fake from its content regardless.