[robertpaulsen]

"The drug war was well underway by 1970."

Before 1970, most drugs were legal. The DEA didn't even come into existence until 1973!

[marktwain]

Robertpaulson posted:

“Before 1970, most drugs were legal. The DEA didn’t even come into existence until 1973!”

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Did you bother reading the posted reply?

Here is is again:

“From 1964 to 1970 in the United States, the number of state prisoners incarcerated for drug offenses more than doubled from 3,079 to 6,596 (it was 90,000 in 1989)[9], and the new concentration on enforcing victimless crimes caused the homicide rate to skyrocket. Between 1964 and 1970 the homicide rate doubled from 5 per 100,000 to 10 per 100,000, where it has remained, with minor fluctuations, until today.[2] Lyndon Johnson had declared war on drugs, to be followed by Richard Nixon declaring War on Drugs in 1969,”