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The term "war on drugs" was popularized by the media after a press conference, given on June 17, 1971, during which President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse "public enemy number one". [10] He stated, "In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive. ...
Operation Intercept is considered the opening act of the US involvement in the Mexican Drug War. With that move, Nixon strengthened his conservative base in Southern California. [4] The operation was prepared with G. Gordon Liddy (who was involved in Watergate and prosecutions against Timothy Leary) and Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. [5]
During the administration of American President Richard Nixon (1969–1974), the United States turned to increasingly harsh measures against cannabis use, and a step away from proposals to decriminalize or legalize the drug. The administration began the War on Drugs, with Nixon in 1971 naming drug abuse as "public enemy number one in the United ...
In a new report published by Harper's Dan Baum examines the war on drugs, a campaign for drug prohibition popularized by Richard Nixon. The report, Legalize It All, reveals a conversation that ...
Drug use and addiction are public health issues and should be treated that way. Nixon's war on drugs has failed for half a century. It’s time to end it: Alexander Soros
More importantly, Nixon's drug policies did not focus on the kind of criminalization that Ehrlichman described. Instead, Nixon's drug war was largely a public health crusade – one that would be reshaped into the modern, punitive drug war we know today by later administrations, particularly President Ronald Reagan...
Richard Nixon literally declared an official war on drugs. President Nixon speaks on June 17, 1971, calling drug abuse "a national emergency." At left is Egil Krogh, deputy director of the ...
Domestically, Nixon pushed for the Controlled Substances Act and began the war on drugs. Nixon's first term took place at the height of the American environmental movement and enacted many progressive environmental policy shifts; his administration created the Environmental Protection Agency and passed legislation such as the Endangered Species ...