Eliminating the scourge of drugs in America was Nancy Reagan's brainchild, and it was a very laudable goal. The fact that it was so ham-fistedly and wrongly implemented, and co-opted for repressive purposes doesn't diminish the nobility of the original goal that gave birth to such a monster.
Back in the 1970's it was plain to see that a Nixon initiative such as a drug war was not congruous with a free country in the same way that an absolute prohibition on alcohol was not.
The first Nixon election was actually the birth of the monster which enabled such a multi-generation debacle.
Regardless of how toxic and harmful alcohol and drugs have been for millennia.
Turns out Nixon was not only misinformed, he also had a crooked streak.
History shows that the Reagan mishandling of a free country occurred afterward.
I not only witnessed all of this first hand, it has been a painful experience.
You should have seen what a free country was like beforehand.
