"Drug use, they [the Nixon administration] thought, was the common denominator among the groups- low-income blacks, the counterculture & the antiwar movement - against whom #Nixon had unified “ignored America”. This is how ’War on Drugs’ started and the collateral damage is still ongoing today.
▻https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/44zven/how_did_the_baby_boomer_generation_go_from_open/czujwry #drogues #drugs #War_on_Drugs #USA #police