“Reagan deserves a “special place in hell” for his role in “making drugs political.””
Not only is this woman a low-class hack, she doesn’t know bleep about the history of the subject. The War on Drugs as we know it today really began with LBJ, and escalated under Nixon. Every President since then - Democrat and Republican -, has taken the same basic approach. It is true Reagan got some noticeably strict legislation passed into law, but the issue was no more or less political than it was under any of the previous administrations.
“It is true Reagan got some noticeably strict legislation passed into law, but the issue was no more or less political than it was under any of the previous administrations.”
And when the Colombians turned Miami of the 1980’s into Chicago of the 1920’s it was Reagan’s DOJ that helped to clean it up. South Floridians who were not involved in the drug trade were thankful.