Paul Guttenberg
Paul Gootenberg, historian of Latin America and the Andean drug trade and SUNY Distinguished Professor emeritus of History & Sociology at Stony Brook University, author of "Andean Cocaine."
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Oct 2, 2026
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Nixon's war on drugs, which was declared in 1971, had actually the long-term effect of creating the modern cocaine trade.
Paul GuttenbergGUEST
I'm Paul Guttenberg, and I'm a retired professor of history at Stony Brook University, living in New York City.
Paul GuttenbergGUEST
One side was cannabis, which had grown up and exploded during the 1960s with the kind of, you know, countercultural youth and the protest movement against the war in Vietnam.
Paul GuttenbergGUEST
Nixon hated those students and hated those demographics, so the war on drugs was a political crusade to crack down on radical students or countercultural students.
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