In 1971, President Nixon declared war on drugs and increased the presence of federal drug agencies. ... By the time President Richard Nixon and President Ronald Reagan were out of presidency, the war on drugs continued on with no slowing down. ...
The history of drug policy began in 1969 under the presidency of Richard Nixon. Nixon was looking for a way to decrease crime in the Washington D.C. area. ... Nixon felt that drugs are bad, so bad people do drugs. ... Like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan believed drug use was a moral problem. ... Drug policy since Richard Nixon's presidency has had racist and imperialist overtones. ...
The war on drugs was fist declared by Richard M. Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign. ... After John Ehrilichman, one of Nixon's advisors told him that narcotics repression was a "sexy political issue" the war on drugs was then declared and used as "election ammunition" during the 1968 presidential campaign. ...
Knowledge, Your Anti Propaganda Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inne...
A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel tha...
