TIME TO END AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS

Let's radically reassess the problem and initiate a season of solutions

Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs in 1971. At the time he called drugs America’s "public enemy No. 1," although he knew that wasn't true. The entire venture was the worst kind of political ploy - aimed primarily at Black Americans - and continues to exist for no other reason than that few have had the courage to undertake a genuine cost-benefit …