“The War on Drugs…deserves to be remembered for what it was: a popular reform movement targeting a major social problem. That popular movement, furthermore, did substantial work to fix the harms an uncontrolled drug culture had wrought.
At the same time, though, the War on Drugs does not deserve unqualified praise. The reality is that by the late 1990s, progress in the “war” had stalled. … a function of the inherent difficult of shaping demand for addictive substances”

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What Was the War on Drugs? Part I

Introduction

The Causal Fallacy