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. ...

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What would the Federal, state, and local governments do with an extra $40 billion each year? That is the amount of money spent on the War on Drugs each year-$1,271 per second spent on law enforcement, incarceration, and interdiction. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), 1,356,307...

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