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Mar 29, 2016 · 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,...
Mar 22, 2016 · The war on drugs: Is it a genuine public health crusade or an attempt to carry out what author Michelle Alexander characterizes as “the New Jim Crow”? A new report by Dan Baum for Harper’s...
Mar 23, 2016 · It’s a stark departure from Nixon’s public explanation for his first piece of legislation in the war on drugs, delivered in message to Congress in July 1969, which framed it as a response to...
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Aug 24, 2021 · O ver fifty years ago on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared to the Washington press corps that America had a new enemy—narcotics. “America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon...
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Sep 28, 2023 · A shrewd politician, Nixon used his war on drugs as part of his campaign even though the identified “problem” – drugs – and the articulated strategy in response were based on questionable data.
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...
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Jul 26, 2021 · Although Nixon declared the war on drugs on June 17, 1971, the U.S. already had lots of practice imposing drug prohibitions that had racially skewed impacts. The arrival of Chinese migrants...
