Boris Johnson’s New War on Drugs is Actually a War on the Poor

The new Nixonian policies are a worrying nod to the hypocrisies of the past

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In an interview in 1994, John Ehrlichman, one of Richard Nixon’s most senior advisers, admitted that the War on Drugs had very little to do with the drugs themselves but had in fact been a way to target groups in society who provided…