Monday, 28. September 2009
Topic: DRUGS - on September 28, 2009 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
War on drugs 40 years on
First announced by President Nixon in 1969, the war on drugs’ forty-year old effort of aggressive criminalization, interdiction and eradication has left a high body-count.
Critics argue that it has driven the drug trade underground, fueling transnational organized crime, corruption, and narcoinsurgency around the world. And many blame the war on drugs for the heavy US incarceration rate, the highest in the world.
