More Thoughts on the War on Drugs in America

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The war on drugs is a term used to describe the federal government’s attempts to end the manufacturing, import, export, sale and use of illegal drugs through a series of anti-drug initiatives all aiming at the common goal of ending drug abuse.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower said in the New York Times that there is “a new war on narcotic addiction at the local, national and international level, with the establishment of an Interdepartmental Committee on Narcotics.” This was back on November 27, 1954. Eisenhower was responsible for creating and organizing the executive branch for “anti drug efforts.”  TRecently, some The actual phrase “war on drugs” came from the mouth of President Richard M. Nixon at a press conference on June 17, 1971. During this press meeting Nixon described illegal drugs as “public enemy number one i the United States.”…

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