烟雾与镜子
Smoke and mirrors
Dan Baum · 初版 1996 年
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就政府行为的纯粹荒谬性而言，War on Drugs 几乎无出其右。在经历了三十年愈发严苛的惩罚性政策后，非法毒品却变得更容易获取，纯度更高，涉毒凶杀更为普遍，毒枭也比以往任何时候都更加富有。War on Drugs 耗费华盛顿的资金超过了商务部、内政部和国务院的总和——而且这是唯一一项增长从未受到质疑的预算。不堪重负的法院系统、人满为患的监狱以及被荒废的生命，使得代价无可估量。这场始于 1968 年竞选说辞的华丽辞藻，如今已演变成一头巨兽。而且……
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……瞒了二十年，而不是写进他关于该主题的书里。不过，《赫芬顿邮报》（Huffington Post）就此事询问了他：Baum 向《赫芬顿邮报》解释了为什么没把这段引言收录进他 1996 年出版的书《Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure》中。“在《Smoke and Mirrors》里完全没有作者视角的采访内容；写这本书的目的是让读者在事件发生时有种身临其境的感觉，”Baum 在一封电子邮件中说。……
…twenty years instead of publishing it in his book on the subject. Huffington Post, however, asked him about that: Baum explained to The Huffington Post why he didn’t include the quote in his 1996 book, Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. “There are no authorial interviews in [Smoke and Mirrors] at all; it’s written to put the reader in the room as events transpire,” Baum said in an email.…
Ehrlichman 的这段话最早是由 Dan Baum 在其 1997 年出版的《Smoke and Mirrors》一书中公开的。这本书在 Ehrlichman 去世前出版，里面还包含了对尼克松其他幕僚的采访，都能佐证 Ehrlichman 的说法。该书曾获得《纽约时报》的书评报道。
The Ehrlichman quote was first published by Dan Baum in his 1997 book, Smoke and Mirrors. This book came out before Ehrlichman died, and it included other interviews with Nixon staffers that supported the Ehrlichman quote. The book was reviewed by the New York Times.
……“在那些‘运动’中，成员们普遍都有吸食致幻剂的习惯”。我觉得这话不假，但我认为你搞错了这些禁令背后真正的逻辑。在 Dan Baum 的《Smoke and Mirrors》中，尼克松的国内政策顾问 John Ehrlichman 承认，针对海洛因和大麻是因为这两种毒品分别[被认为]在黑人和嬉皮士群体中很流行，而这两个群体……
…"movements" in which taking psychedelics was something the members of the movement were known to do" I think that is true, but I think you have misidentified the actual rational behind the bans. In Dan Baum's Smoke and Mirrors, Dan Baum has John Ehrlichman, Nixon's domestic policy advisor, admitting that heroin and weed were targeted because their use was [perceived to be] popular among black people and hippies, both groups…
……搜查他们的住所、拆散他们的聚会，并在每晚的晚间新闻里对他们百般丑化。我们知不知道自己在毒品问题上撒了谎？当然知道了。”1992 年接受记者 Dan Baum（《Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure》的作者）采访，完整引言见 Dan Baum 的《Truth, Lies, and Audiotape》（2012 年）。
…homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." Interviewed in 1992 by journalist Dan Baum, author of Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure, full quote in "Truth, Lies, and Audiotape" by Dan Baum (2012).