Forty Years and Billions of Dollars Later, U.S. Still Fighting War on Drugs

Published May 18, 2010

Forty Years and Billions of Dollars Later, U.S. Still Fighting War on Drugs
Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act and soon told the nation that “public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.”