President Nixon formally declared the "War on Drugs" in 1971. | HISTORY
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“The War on Drugs began in June 1971 when U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be “public enemy number one” and increased federal funding for drug-control agencies and drug-treatment efforts. In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created.” Due to the crack epidemic in the 80s under the Reagan administration, “U.S. Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which allocated $1.7 billion to the War on Drugs and established a series of “mandatory minimum” prison sen
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Two years after former President Richard Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, he was recorded saying that he knew marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” The remarks, which leading historians on the Nixon era said they found revelatory, were part of a set of tapes that were only recently made widely available. https://nyti.ms/4gqhzEH | The New York Times
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