Drug Abuse Problems and the Idioms of War

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Until the twentieth century, U.S. drug abuse problems were not viewed as criminal, nor as a federal responsibility. It took the XVIII Amendment to outlaw liquor-drinking, while drug prohibition was undertaken, in the same era, with no authority but a modest federal tax. This latter usurpation was largely accomplished by inflammatory propaganda, most of it false. Politicians and empire-building bureaucrats have never let up. Beginning with the Kennedys, even Presidents joined in. Mr. Nixon was the worst, but Mr. Carter is also already personally in the act. Drug abusers have not had spokesmen; if they did, nearly everything the public accepts today about them and their problems would be given the lie.

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