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Ep. 276 How We Keep Each Other Alive with Donovan X. Ramsey

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Ronald Reagan and the War on Drugs

"I feel like we put it on Nixon really hard. And then I know that Reagan did fucked up shit, but how much of this was just like, here you go, kid?" "Reagan's real contribution to the war on drugs is this messaging that completely vilified and demonized anybody involved in drugs," he says. 'The fact that they have been in Hollywood, that they knew lots of people in media and advertising to completely infiltrate television during the 80s and 90s with anti drug messaging'

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