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I know earlier prezes fought against drugs, but I don't remember any of them being as publicized or in-your-face as Reagan. I could be wrong, Nixon could have been a raging anti-drugist.

So say that somehow the recipe for crack cocaine isn't discovered in the eighties. ASB would be it's chemically impossible, but that's not for here. Other than not hitting minorities and the poor like an 18-wheeler, how would the lack of a crack threat affect Reagan's war on drugs? Would he still be as aggressive, or would he focus on other things?

Speaking of which, was there any one particular narcotic that was the "driving force" or "last straw" that made Reagan and his administration start more aggressively going after drugs? Each drug is an epidemic, but crack ate up communities like wildfire.

And this is for just this time period. Crack could still be discovered later, but I'm just interested in the eighties/Reagan effects.
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