... drugs," first coined by former President Richard Nixon over 30 years ago, is the name of a movement to hinder drug abuse in America. While Nixon did not necessarily start the drug war, he put the program into overdrive, setting precedent for numerous presidents to come. Nixon's plan was to attempt to interrupt ... enforcement had been losing to new high-tech smugglers and people even accused him of working with the enemy (2Gray 111). The actions taken by both Nixon and Bush to decrease drug usage and crime in America highlight how useless and counterproductive the "war on drugs" is. Acco...

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... them to become active in helping to evolve the government into one that suits the needs of everyone in the United States. The war on drugs was fist declared by Richard M. Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign. From the start, the war on drugs has done little, but was manipulated by politicians to gain votes. Billion of tax dollars are wasted each ... from the anti drugs laws and prevention efforts. The war on drugs should end because like prohibition, "the 'cure' here is worse than the 'disease.'" After John Ehrilichman, one of Nixon's advisors told him that narcotics repression w...

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... logical strategy is to control supply. It is a very simple tactic in which states: if there is no drugs available to the people, then it cannot be abused. Until President Richard Nixon began to apply the Harrison Act in 1972, "little had been done to combat drugs at home. Ten years later, President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs and expanded the ... ...

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