[voisin]

> war on drug addicts

No, ir was a war on political opponents, not necessarily addicts at all. The War on Marijuana and Acid was to go after hippies, and the War on Crack was to go after inner city blacks. The idea being all of these groups would have voted liberal and the Republican base supported punishing these groups. This was all assumed for decades but made explicit as the strategy by one of Nixon’s top lieutenants in recent years.

[lazide]

There was at least a token attempt to crack down on Cocaine though, and that’s about as WASP a drug as is humanly possible.

[true_religion]

Aren’t hippies majority WASPs too?

[lazide]

Usually more like counter culture ‘trying to not be a WASP since Daddy was a WASP and he was a jerk’.

So depends on how you define it.

[nvm0n2]

Which would be a great explanation if there weren't drug wars in every other part of the world too, including left wing dictatorships like China.