War on drugs
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Sep 26, 2026
AZHOST
order.
XOHOST
Then we have the war on drugs.
XOHOST
which Nixon's own advisor admitted was designed to target Black communities.
XOHOST
Using police as a primary instrument, Black Americans incarcerated at five times the rate of white Americans for drug offenses, despite comparable usage rates.
AZHOST
I was like, cat got your tongue.
AZHOST
It really got me shooken up for me because I'm just like.
AZHOST
Once again, folks, Slave Patrol, Black Coals, Jim Crow, War on Drugs.
AZHOST
Each system uses different languages.
John GreenHOST
Then there's the depressing rise in imprisonment.
John GreenHOST
Politicians competed with each other to see who could be tougher on crime, and as the war on drugs continued, many state legislatures passed three strikes laws, meaning that people who were convicted of three felonies would go to prison for life.
John GreenHOST
The number of Americans in prison skyrocketed.
John GreenHOST
By 2008, it was 2.3 million, one quarter of the total number of inmates on planet Earth.
Pascal LottazHOST
the word because everything started becoming a war.
Pascal LottazHOST
War on drugs, war on terror, war against, uh, COVID.
Daniel KleinGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Pascal LottazHOST
War on whatever it is.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
and running numbers.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
Yet, the Clinton 94 crime bill, war on drugs, war on black people, and then the 94 crime bill mass incarcerated us over cannabis, brother.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
One duck in the ass, Trey Earl.
Tyrone MuhammadGUEST
A duck that was able to seize your cars.
Stefan HartmannHOST
Now, I have a very interesting question for you, and it relates to the two paradigms with how to address drug addiction.
Stefan HartmannHOST
So you have the Bush administration, war on drugs, and then you have Massachusetts, California is like legalized drugs, and you have people overdosing on the side of the street.
Stefan HartmannHOST
And so the Bush administration got a lot of flack for, oh, the war on drugs, it incarcerated a lot of people.
Stefan HartmannHOST
Then you see the LA and you're like, oh my gosh, there's a zombie apocalypse here.
Stefan HartmannHOST
So what would we do? Who's right? Yeah.
Stefan HartmannHOST
Well,
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
let me just say the war on drugs started long before the Bush administration.
Andrea BarthwellGUEST
And it followed a term that was coined by the media, the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy, the war on...
MaddieHOST
So if you are like, I want to hear about that first, go back to part one and then come back here.
MaddieHOST
And then now today, we're going to talk about the war on drugs and Ronald Reagan and homelessness.
MaddieHOST
are we ready to get into it ladies
OliviaHOST
we are i mean i think we say this in most of our multiple part episodes but if you're skipping to part two and you haven't listened to part one what's wrong with you so go stop this go back to part one i want to see your statistics rise on part one and then you can come back to part two okay yes
MaddieHOST
i like that thank you venus is also ready i don't know if y'all heard her scampering but she's sprinting around right now my cat
OliviaHOST
Okay, so before we begin
MaddieHOST
with the war on drugs, do we have any initial thoughts before I get into the details? I just hate the name.
ArielHOST
I honestly don't know much about the origin of the war on drugs, just that it feels like it has dragged on for decades now.
WendyHOST
or POCs.
WendyHOST
Anyway, he continued Slick Rick, a.k.a. Nixon's War on Drugs, which was really a war on poor people and people of color.
WendyHOST
Dallas was trying to fight the war on drugs.
WendyHOST
But Dallas also had a civil war.
WendyHOST
It was very divided by politics, by class, and by race.
SamHOST
By that measure, a lot of us qualify.
SamHOST
And then he goes after the war on drugs.
SophieHOST
He's scathing about it.
SophieHOST
He says it criminalizes illness and punishes trauma.
JJ van der VeverHOST
He later wrote, "In four hours, I learned more about the mind, the brain, and its structures than I did in the preceding fifteen years as a diligent psychologist." In 1967, he encouraged young people to turn on, tune in, drop out, warning the country's leadership that the youth who engaged in psychedelics aren't going to fight your wars or join your corporations.
JJ van der VeverHOST
A moral panic ensued, and President Nixon declared an all-out war on drugs.
JJ van der VeverHOST
The Controlled Substances Act was introduced in 1970, outlawing psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in the United States.
JJ van der VeverHOST
The UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances in 1971 extended this classification internationally, forcing the recreational and academic exploration of these substances into hibernation for several decades.
Tim MillerHOST
And so, um, what I did instead a couple months ago is reach out to some artists that I've t- spoken to in the past or, or featured in the past to see if we could just license their songs and use them repeatedly at the end of the show.
Tim MillerHOST
Orville Peck, the War on Drugs, MJ Lenderman, shout out to them, are allowing us to use some of their songs.
Tim MillerHOST
I'm working on some others as well that we can add.
Tim MillerHOST
Um, from time to time, I'll still, you know, pick a little teaser for you guys, um, because I have fun doing it, but this way, uh, that takes a little burden off me.
Tim MillerHOST
Also, there's the playlist that I was creating that I kind of stopped updating this summer.
Tim MillerHOST
At some point, I'll have a boring day, and I'll go back in time and update the playlist, but it doesn't have kind of, like, the last two months of songs, so I'm sorry about that.
Tim MillerHOST
But we've got some great, and I think, kinda cheeky tunes, uh, that we'll now be ending the episodes with, and appreciate Orville and, and, uh, MJ, and, uh, the War on Drugs for letting us do that.
Tim MillerHOST
We also have, uh, just on the event in Springfield, so overwhelmed by the response that we've had.
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