Because simply calling "drug warfare" "failure" will give too much credit to the intention it expresses, it rejects the implicit intentions and the myriad ways people will benefit from it today. It was a huge success in these areas. Twitter.com/hrinews/status
Therefore, the drug war was born by President Richard Nixon and President Ronald Reagan, but both President Bush and President Clinton intensified drug warfare. Unfortunately, with today's President Obama it is now known that the continuous form of drug warfare is almost the same as was done at the time. I do not think that most Americans know the scale and extent of large American imprisonment. Unless you are directly influenced by the system, unless there is no relative in prison, if you do not have time, unless you have criminals or family members who can not go to work with felony brands, You can find. Please refuse food stamps for survival unless the system is in direct contact with you, it is even harder to imagine something of this extent and scale may even exist.
Drug War: "President Reagan officially announced the current drug war that the drug crime decreased but did not rise in 1982. From the beginning war has little relation to drug crime and is mostly related to racial politics Narcotics War is a politically coded political encyclopaedia of crime and welfare issues in order to attract apartheid, harassment, dissatisfied dissatisfaction and intimidated poor and working-class voters of the working class. Part of a greatly successful Republican strategy to use protests In the words of Mr. HR Haldeman, director of the Richard Nixon's White House office, his question is actually black people, their key is the system that recognized this It is to design.
In 1972, when President Richard Nixon announced "drug warfare" - the first drug war of the American drug war ongoing in the United States, the American drug crackdown entered the world stage. In the first battle of his drug war, Nixon attacked opium production in Turkey and then attacked the second highest in Southwest Asia. In the next battle, Nixon White Palace shifted attacks to Southeast Asia, centering on exports of Bangkok. By the mid 1970's, the price of heroin in New York tripled and the purity dropped to half - both were powerful indicators of a serious shortage 1 Nixon won the first time in four US drug wars . 127