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prerequisite reading: http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2016/02/points-about-progressive-era-war-of.html   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley Contrary to what is commonly regurgitated, the drug war did not start with Richard Nixon . Rather, it was the phrase "war on drugs", that came with the re-codification of drug prohibition that occurred under Nixon with the enactment of the 1970 U.S. Controlled Substances Act . This re-codification was necessary following the 1969 Leary case that had the Supreme Court officially find the statutory basis of US drug prohibition since the 1914 - the power to tax - unconstitutional as violating an individual's right against self incrimination. The 1970 CSA would instead base itself upon the power to regulate interstate commerce. The U.S. drug war dates back to the prohibitions established via the 1937 “Marijuana” Tax Act and the 1914 Harrison "Narcotics" Tax Act regarding “opium or coca leaves, t...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/full-text-president-donald-trumps-inauguration-speech.html But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge; and the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. To end the carnage- end the drug war. Not merely the asinine war on Cannabis that denies a useful medicine and alternative to alcohol. Not merely the asinine war on Opium and Coca leaves that not only denies useful medicines and alternatives to alcohol, nicotine and caffeine, but perverts these useful substances into infinitely more potentially dangerous ultra-concentrated drug forms. But a...