NEW YORK, March 22 (UPI) -- A top aide to President Richard Nixon said the "War on Drugs" was created to punish anti-war protesters and African-Americans, according to a report in Harper's Magazine.
Journalist Dan Baum says John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy chief, made the admission in a 1994 interview, recently revisited for Baum's piece on the War on Drugs in Harper's.