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Aug 24, 2021 · When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.
- Benjamin T. Smith
May 31, 2017 · In June 1971, Nixon officially declared a “War on Drugs,” stating that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.”
The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, [6] led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States. [7] [8] [9] The initiative includes a set of drug policies that are intended to discourage the production ...
May 27, 2024 · War on Drugs, the effort in the United States since the 1970s to combat illegal drug use by greatly increasing penalties, enforcement, and incarceration for drug offenders. It began in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be ‘public enemy number one’ and increased funding for drug control.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 2, 2007 · President Richard Nixon officially declared a "war on drugs" in 1971, two years after calling for the creation of a national drug policy.
Feb 23, 2024 · The War on Drugs began in June 1971 when U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be “public enemy number one” and increased federal funding for drug-control agencies and drug-treatment efforts. In 1973 the Drug Enforcement Administration was created out of the merger of the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, and the Office of ...
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Aug 24, 2021 · When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal. by Benjamin T. Smith via Time on August 24, 2021. Over fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics.
