Report: 40-Year War on Drugs Is a Costly Failure

Forty years later: Has the war on drugs failed?
EDITOR’S NOTE — Four decades after Richard Nixon declared war on drugs, more Americans use them and drug-related violence has gotten worse. This is the first in an occasional series of reports by The Associated Press examining why the drug war failed and why the U.S. and Mexico continue to fight a losing battle.

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Kerlikowske’s drug policy: not bold enough?
WASHINGTON — U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske hit the publicity trail Wednesday to promote the Obama administration’s new National Drug Control Strategy, a five-year plan to reduce drug use that already has disappointed some who had hoped for a bolder shift toward prevention and treatment.

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Report: 40-year war on drugs is a costly failure
Drug use and violence are worse than the 1970s, despite a budget that has ballooned to $15 billion.

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