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We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalising both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalising both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
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In 2007, the US Army Corps of Engineers built a bridge over a gorge between the Kunduz province and Tajikistan. The bridge – a standard dual-use infrastructure – stimulated the economies of both countries by providing an international outlet for Afghan heroin. Kunduz city was home to one of the main Delta Force base camps, and ‘a choke point controlling access to the alpine supply route’. ‘No wonder’, Harp writes, it ‘was the site of such fierce fighting’. The drugs didn’t stay in Central Asia, of course, just as heroin didn’t stay in Laos during the Indochinese wars. And just as the US blamed the Nixon-era epidemic of heroin on Turkish poppies, Mexico became the scapegoat for the opioid outbreak during the Bush and Obama years.
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