Introducing: The War on Drugs | The Origin Story (it’s worse than you think)

01/25/23 • 36 min

This is episode one of the new podcast called The War on Drugs from Lava for Good Podcasts. If you like what you hear you can find and follow The War on Drugs wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Our co-hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod, along with guest Johann Hari discuss the long-forgotten mastermind behind America’s War on Drugs: Harry Anslinger - the infamous head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics toward the end of Prohibition. Desperate to justify his agency, and secure funding from Congress, Anslinger, by all accounts a virulent racist, fabricated stories about the dangers of drugs by demonizing minority communities four decades before Richard Nixon's declaration of war on drugs.

The War on Drugs will be available every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts.

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01/25/23 • 36 min

Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom - Introducing: The War on Drugs | The Origin Story (it’s worse than you think)

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I'm Jason Flam and I'm excited to share a new podcast with you called The War on Drugs. In nineteen seventy one, President Nixon declared drug abuse to be Public Enemy number one, which was the opening salvo in what became known as America's War on drugs. Fifty years later, with drug overdoses at an all time high, are we any closer to victory? The War on Drugs? From Lava for Good podcast co hosted by comedian Clayton English and Greg Gloud, the s

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