To start with, the war on drugs was initiated by Nixon as a way to target political enemies (hippies and non-whites).

[citation needed], and not the citation from an interview twenty years ago with a guy long dead, who quoted Erlichman in an unfinished book.

	▲	sixothree 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It was really John Ehrlichman who revealed the truth. Listening to the Nixon tapes, he (Nixon) spent the entirety of his days scheming against political enemies and people he simply didn't like. https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich... You really shouldn't need a citation for something so easily verifiable.