In June 1971, President Richard Nixon delcared a “war on drugs” and pronounced drug abuse to be “public enemy No. 1.” Two years later, in July 1973, Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and charged them with coordinating the efforts of other federal agencies in the war on drugs.
In May 2009, nearly four decades later, Gil Kerlikowske, the new director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), declared the war on drugs to be over. He said...
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