A Nixon official said that the real reason for the war on drugs was to undermine Nixon's opposition that is, black people and the critics of the Vietnam war.

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Yes then in the Reagan years they continued this effort except they switched from pushing heroin into black America to pushing tons of crack cocaine which the CIA was importing from Columbia. Pablo Escobar's son said in his book that the CIA was his father's biggest customer.