thanatos144
Gold Member
I have common sense and the truth not drug induced conspiracy theories .Look at how stupid you are without drugs.This post is proof pot makes you stupidVery easy answer.
The war on drugs was used by Reagan to move African Americans from dismantled welfare programs to prison cells.
More generally, the war on drugs became a tool to beef up law enforcement in order to more effectively deal with superfluous populations, e.g., poor workers left behind by deindustrialization (as manufacturing jobs were sent to China).
Indeed, many of our great cities had large ghettos by the late 70s. Reagan pledged to fix the problem by beefing up law enforcement. The war on drugs was central to this as it gave local law enforcement greater latitude to jail inner city miscreants.
Finally, consider that pot was a part of the anti-war hippie counter-culture, which the Right opposes. By criminalizing the life-style of the Left, the war on drugs became a Stalinist tool for jailing political enemies.
Meaning: the war on drugs became a crucial political tool of Movement Conservatism. It allowed them to target political enemies and otherwise disruptive citizens. And it proves that the Right doesn't care about small government. The Right has always wanted Big Government to micro-manage the lifestyle choices of free citizens, from sexual behavior to the ingestion of a harmless weed.