Thanks for the info! I mentally conflated the marijuana crackdown with the crack stuff that Reagon sponsored later on with the “Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986”. I would correct my comment but someone responded with a funny picture that would be out of context if I swapped in Nixon. ;p

As a side note: I don’t think it’s wholly disingenuous to attribute this kind of rediculous chicanery with Reagan, given that Reagan took Nixon’s inertia and ran with it, going the extra mile to fuck over poor black people in particular.

Jesus fucking christ why can’t we move past this fucking reagon era bullshit… Fuck these fascists

Edit: I forgor the s