Forty Years Later: Has the War on Drugs Failed?

Casualty of war on drugs debated
Critics say money spent not worth gains made in battling trade, addiction

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War on drugs hasn’t met any of its goals, AP finds
After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug…

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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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