1. The Hopeless War - The War on Drugs
... and Control Act of 1970 consolidated the previous anti-war legislation into one bill and therefore also established schedules of illicit drugs (1Gray 27). When George H. W. Bush became president, the law enforcement had been losing to new high-tech smugglers and people even accused him of working with the enemy ... (Nixon 4). However, from 1971 when Nixon first declared the "war on drugs" to 1992, "the violent crimes most commonly associated with substance abuse (murder, robbery, and aggravated assault) have risen at a per capita rate of 67%, while arrests for violation of the United Sta...
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