[familyop]

"We have entire industries telling Black people they are justified in committing crimes."

And if entire industries tell people they are justified to abuse drugs? That's already happening to some extents, and we've seen the results over the past couple of decades.

Reagan started what he called the war on drugs. It was mainly an information effort. Drug abuse in students decreased, especially among college students. Drug abuse increased again during the '90s and skyrocketed more recently.

[Just Slightly To The Right]

I believe Richard M Nixon started the “War on drugs” in 1971 declaring drugs and drug use “Public enemy number one”
I remember a discussion with my father, I was 16, about what a fiasco this would become.