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In 1973, Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by executive order, accepted by Congress, to “establish a single unified command to combat an all-out global war on the drug menace.” It is charged with enforcing US controlled substances laws and regulations, nationally and internationally, coordinating with federal, state ...
Jun 17, 2021 · Fifty years after then-President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs,” the United States is still mired in the implications of this wrongheaded, racist policy decision. Today, police make more than 1.5 million drug arrests each year, and about 550,000 of those are for cannabis offenses alone. Almost 500,000 people are incarcerated for ...
Jun 17, 1971 · President Nixon's "War on Drugs" speech set the scene for the establishment of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the National Institute for Drug Abuse. His attitude toward drug users was not wholly punitive; he set aside money for research and treatment as well.
In 1971, Richard Nixon identified drugs as “public enemy number one.” To fight that enemy, he launched a “War on Drugs,” greatly expanding government resources for combating illegal drug use and introducing highly punitive measures against those who possessed or sold drugs. Subsequent administrations continued the “war.”
Jul 23, 2011 · Sat 23 Jul 2011 19.07 EDT. F our decades ago, on 17 July 1971, President Richard Nixon declared what has come to be called the "war on drugs". Nixon told Congress that drug addiction had...
Mar 26, 2012 · Just three months after the Youth Conference met, Nixon launched a drug war that framed drug users not as alienated youths whose addiction was caused by inhabiting a fundamentally...
Jul 21, 2021 · Fifty years ago this summer, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today, with the U.S. mired in a deadly opioid epidemic that did not abate during the coronavirus pandemic’s...
