Y In June 1971 President Richard Nixon declared that ‘America’s public enemy number one is drug abuse.’ At a time of social and racial unrest, he launched a ‘war on drugs’ at home and abroad. The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs became the Drug Enforce…

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