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2. War on drugs - Wikipedia

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   War on drugs A U.S. government PSA from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration with a photo image of two marijuana cigarettes and a "Just Say No" slogan Date June 17, 1971 – present (53 years, 7 months and 1 week) Location Global Status Ongoing, widely viewed as a policy failure Belligerents United States US law enforcement Drug Enforcement Administration US Armed Forces ...

3. Chasing the Scream - Wikipedia

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   Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is a book by Johann Hari examining the history and impact of drug criminalisation, collectively known as "the War on Drugs". The book was published simultaneously in the United Kingdom and United States in January 2015.

4. David F. Musto - Wikipedia

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   David Franklin Musto (January 8, 1936 – October 8, 2010) was an American expert on U.S. drug policy and the War on Drugs who served as a government adviser on the subject during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. He wrote extensively on the history of licit and illicit drugs and the process by which many of them were placed under governmental ...

5. Just Say No - Wikipedia

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   A U.S. government PSA from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for the War on drugs Nancy Reagan hosts the First Ladies Conference on Drug Abuse at the White House in March 1982. Nancy Reagan at a "Just Say No" rally at the White House in May 1986 Address to the Nation on Drug Abuse Campaign on September 14, 1986

6. Use of drugs in warfare - Wikipedia

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   A 1971 U.S. Department of Defense report claimed that over half of U.S. Armed Forces personnel had used the drug. Beginning in 1968 this led to a political scandal in America that led the Nixon administration to more tightly restrict drug use in the military as part of the War on Drugs, requiring all returning soldiers to pass a clinical urine ...

7. Colombian President proposes Latin American alliance to ...

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   Petro, the first leftist president in Colombia's history, closed the Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Drugs, which was held in the city of Cali, by saying that 50 years of a failed war ...

8. New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America's Long War ...

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   Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon ...

9. History of United States drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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   Statutes regulating the sale of narcotics had been passed by several state governments, and opium smoking was outlawed in numerous American municipalities, though these legislation were "only sporadically enforced". Such loose restrictions led to roughly 300,000 drug addicts in the U.S. by the turn of the century. [1]