Elected Officials, VIPs and Grassroots Slam Drug War on 40th Anniversary

Tony Newman (Director of Media Relations, Drug Policy Alliance)
The Huffington Post (US web)
June 14, 2011
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June 17 will mark forty years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1," officially declared a "war on drugs." A trillion dollars and millions of ruined lives later, the war on drugs has proven to be a catastrophic failure.