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Alex Kliment It's been fifty years since the United States declared one of the costliest wars in its history â a trillion-dollar campaign waged at home and abroad, which continues to grind on today. In June of 1971, President Richard Nixon, alarmed by the rise of permissive hippy culture and drug use, unleashed what would become known as the "war on drugs," a tough-on-crime approach that melded law enforcement, military action, and a public messaging campaign that both scared and scolded. Aiming to reduce American drug use, it severely criminalized consumption in the US, while attacking international cartels' capacity to...
