War on Drugs Has Been ’40 Years of Folly’

Next week marks the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s launch of the war on drugs, writes Charles Blow in the New York Times . It is most definitely not a celebratory column. It is “a war that has waxed and waned, sputtered and sprinted, until it became an unmitigated disaster, an…

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War on Drugs Has Been ’40 Years of Folly’

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