Thus, politicians such as Richard Nixon began to push for legislation that was "tough on crime". Nixon asserted that, "the deterioration [of respect for the rule of law] can be traced directly to the spread of the corrosive doctrine that every citizen possesses an inherent right to decide for himself which laws to obey and when to disobey them"('Gerber 2004). ... The public was not oblivious to the subliminally racist rhetoric Nixon and his party campaigned on, and saw it as the necessary centerpiece of stricter drug prohibition. ... The United States Drug Addiction Rate since t...

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Knowledge, Your Anti Propaganda Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inne...

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