War on Drugs
Anti-narcotic government effort
The War on Drugs is the U.S. government's campaign against illegal drug use, trafficking, and production, launched in the 1970s under President Nixon.
The phrase now often carries skeptical or critical connotations, suggesting policies that failed or caused more harm than good: The War on Drugs filled prisons but didn't reduce addiction.
- narcoticsDrugs inducing sleep, numbness
- DEAFederal narcotics agency
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- cocaineAddictive stimulant narcotic
heroin · prohibition · Reagan · crack · crack epidemic · inner city · enforcement · smuggling · border · prison · mandatory · sentencing · mandatory minimums · marijuana · kingpin · interdiction · addiction · epidemic
- 1980s AmericaRonald Reagan, Reagan, Iran-Contra, Contras, Sandinistas
- Political SlangMAGA, Tricky Dick, Dubya, New Deal, Great Society
War on Drugsdrug legalization
Permitting controlled substances officially
legalization · decriminalization · drug decriminalization · harm reduction · cannabis legalization
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