war on drugs

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  7/28/2021
  

  Fifty Years Since the War on Drugs

  "This summer marks 50 years since the war on drugs began under President Richard Nixon. But the opioid overdose epidemic continues to ravage the country, and incarceration—especially of Black people—has skyrocketed over the past 5 decades." 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/8/2021
  

  The U.S. War On Drugs Helped Unleash The Violence In Colombia Today

  by Kyle Longley

  Counternarcotics operations have been a pretext for funding a buildup of the Colombian security forces, allowing a US-friendly rightist government to avoid dealing with the economic and social causes of unrest. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2019
  

  Why abruptly abandoning the drug war is a bad idea for Mexico

  by Aileen Teague

  Long-term economic initiatives are good, but a power vacuum will make things more violent in the short term.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/19
  

  How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

  A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

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• 2-26-17
  

  There’s One Last Big-Ticket Item on Trump’s Agenda: A War on Drugs

  by Matthew R. Pembleton

  Be afraid.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  3-22-16
  

  Former Nixon Aide Claims ‘War on Drugs’ Invented to Suppress Black People

  John Ehrlichman, an integral part of the Nixon White House, reportedly referred to the anti-war left and blacks as enemies of the Nixon regime, and outlined a method by which it “could disrupt those communities.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3-7-16
  

  Nancy Reagan's Role in the Disastrous War on Drugs

  by Tony Newman

  President Reagan's drug war began the mass incarceration of blacks.  It was a disaster. 

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• 5-9-15
  

  How Our War on Drugs Undermines Mexico

  by Aileen Teague

  The continued dominance of multi-billion dollar Mexican drug cartels cannot be seen as separate from the aggressive drug policies emanating from the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.

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• Obama's Lost War on Drugs

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Rather than relying on our hopeless forty-fourth president and an even more hopeless Republican-controlled Congress, citizen groups need to mobilize together to oppose the waste of their hard earned taxpayer dollars in the War on Drugs.