LSJ 376 Lecture 14: The War on Drugs
1 Dec 2016
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Origins of the war on drugs: 1968 election (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) He campaigned and coined most of the rhetoric seen in more recent elections (cid:9633) Promised to lower crime but couldn"t do much since a lot of crime policies are state level (cid:9633) Anticipated the increase of opium in vietnam vets coming home (cid:9674) Called for more federal spending to halt supply across borders (cid:9674) Funded toxic spray on marijuana farm in mexico. Strong measures but he didn(cid:8217)t really escalate it until crack emerged (cid:9674) Crystallized and purified cocaine available to the rich because it was very expensive. There was an increase in crack use but there was not an epidemic w. Repeated theme of trying crack once will get you addicted w w. True a lot of violence associated with it w. But the media presented the violence as the result of using crack w. Legislation: 1986 and 1988 anti-drug abuse act (cid:9674)
