1971: Forty years since Nixon's "war on drugs"

Forty years have passed since the US Government declared a "war on drugs". Here we plunder the archives for coverage of the controversial policy by our own reporters.1970sOn 18th June 1971 Richard Nixon declared a 'war on drugs', stating that the drug problem in the US had become "public enemy number one". Here, Richard Scott looked at his proposals.A particular problem in the US and an important factor in Nixon's decision to address the drugs issue was the heroin addiction of many Vietnam veter...

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