In 1971, Richard Nixon declared his infamous ‘War on Drugs’ in the United States. He pledged to launch a nationwide anti-drug campaign based on “…eradication, interdiction, and incarceration” – in other words, eradicating the presence of illicit drugs in the USA and putting anyone associated with the sale, distribution, and/or possession of drugs behind bars.
Key Points
- Political concerns about marijuana have existed since as early as the 1860s
- “Hashish dens” dominated the U.S. east coast in the 1880s
- Literary reports on weed changed from whimsical to fearful by the early 1900s
- The American media used Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century as scapegoats to highlight marijuana’s “deadly” effects
- Restrictions on marijuana quickly escalated between 1911 and 1918
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