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Last year alone over 10,000 drug criminals were convicted and nearly $250 million of their assets were seized by the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration. And in the most important area, individual use, we see progress.
In September of 1986, President Ronald Reagan alongside his wife Nancy spoke to the nation in regard to their combined support to create strategies and policies that would work to combat the growing issue of drug abuse in America.
May 31, 2017 · Reagan and the War on Drugs. When President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, he vowed to crack down on substance abuse and reprioritize the War on Drugs, which was originally initiated by...
May 29, 2000 · Reagan detractors say that he would have shrugged off the many thousands of such law enforcement atrocities committed in the name of the drug war, as many of Reagan's supporters now shrug them off. People point out that he had declared drugs a danger to national security.
Dec 7, 2023 · America’s War on Drugs Has Always Been Bipartisan—and Unwinnable. 8 minute read. In 1986, President Reagan hands his wife, First Lady Nancy Reagan, the pen he used to sign a $1.7 billion...
In its first report in 1972, 7 percent of the youngest cohort (twelve- to seventeen-year-olds) had used either marijuana or hashish in the previous month, jumping to 12 percent in 1976 and just under 17 percent in 1979. 1. In this increasingly permissive context, cocaine made its grand reentry.
The Vice President tells me drug-related arrests are up over 40 percent, the amount of marijuana seized is up about 80 percent, and the amount of cocaine seized has more than doubled. The important thing is we're hurting the traffickers.
