drug war
Anti-trafficking campaign effort
A drug war is a government's aggressive campaign to suppress illegal drug production, distribution, and use through law enforcement and military action.
The term often refers specifically to U.S. policy beginning in the 1970s: The drug war has filled American prisons.
Critics use the phrase to highlight the policy's failures and human costs.
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- borderOuter edge or limit
cocaine · heroin · black tar · DEA · narco · kingpin · seizure · bust · no-knock raid · interdiction · prohibition · violence · body count · Mexico · Colombia · fast and furious · informant · plea deal
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- drug enforcementDEA, narcotics, interdiction, trafficking, seizure
- drug policynarcotics, decriminalization, cannabis legalization, controlled substances, prohibition
- narcotraffickingnarcos, cartel, cartels, kingpin, traffickers
- Latin crimegang violence, kidnapping, human trafficking, organized crime, narcotics trade
- WarsWWI
drug warlegalization
Making something lawful
drug legalization · decriminalization · drug decriminalization · cannabis legalization · marijuana legalization
drug warharm reduction
Minimizing adverse outcomes pragmatically
medicalization · addiction treatment · rehabilitation · compassionate care · safe injection sites
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