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• Originally published 02/16/2017

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

  Matthew R. Pembleton

  Be afraid.

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• Originally published 03/23/2016

  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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• Originally published 03/08/2016

  Nancy Reagan's Role in the Disastrous War on Drugs

  Tony Newman

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

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• Originally published 04/29/2015

  How Our War on Drugs Undermines Mexico

  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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• Originally published 07/30/2013

  Obama's Lost War on Drugs

  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.