In 1971 President Richard Nixon asserted his war on drugs.2 Nixon's perspective reflected both the need to criminalize and sympathize, in the context of distribution and addiction. Nixon lead the first compelling federal funding treatment program in 1971 which funded the controversial methadone maintenance program. ... In 1973 Nixon dispatched an enormous interdiction operation in Mexico. ... Nixon's efforts proved valiant, Mexico was no longer supplying marijuana to the United States although Columbia quickly substituted. ...

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One of the major dilemmas in the United States" legislation is the war against drugs. The War on Drugs has struggled since it was launched in 1968 by Republican Richard Nixon. "Nixon singled out "the problem of narcotics" as "the modern curse of the youth" of the country. He blamed an increase in cr...

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