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The first drug laws were enacted in the 1870’s against opium which was widely correlated with Chinese immigrants. Then in the early 1900’s anti-cocaine laws were enforced and directed toward the south western black men. In the 1910’s and 20’s Mexican immigrants were being correlated with marijuana smoking and the first ant-cannabis laws were enacted. The war on drugs was propagandized throughout history with immigrants. The Federal bureau of narcotics made up myths and horror stories pertaining to drug use and in 1971 Nixon declared the official “war on drugs” increasing federal drug control agencies. John Ehrlichman, a man on Nixon's council and assistant of domestic affairs later admitted " “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."