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About America's "War on Drugs"
U.S. Drug Policy: The War on Drugs (1971-2020) If there is one policy (and one phrase) that epitomizes the U.S. approach to illicit drugs and substance addiction over the last 50 years, it is this: “The War on Drugs.” The term was popularized by the U.S. media in 1971 after then-President Richard Nixon famously announced the beginning of his “War on Drugs,” having declared that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.” Nixon immediately raised federal funding for both the mil