Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging

tharedhead · Jul 24, 2011

Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging | Society | The Observer

Drug abuse, said the president, was "public enemy number one".
But as reported the following morning in our sister newspaper, the Guardian, the president's initiative appears to have been primarily motivated not by considerations of the ghettoes or Woodstock festival, but by addiction among soldiers fighting in Vietnam: the first and immediate measure in the "war on drugs", implemented 40 years ago this weekend, was the institution of urine testing for all US troops in Indochina.
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