Early the following year, Nixon created the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) in January 1972 to wage a government war on otherwise peaceful and innocent Americans who voluntarily chose to ingest plants, weeds, and intoxicants proscribed by the government. At a press conference on that day in 1971, Nixon identified drug abuse as “public enemy number one in the United States” and launched a failed, costly and inhumane federal war on Americans that continues to today. This Sunday, June 17 will mark the 47th anniversary of a shameful day in US history - it’s when President Richard Nixon’s declared what has been the US government’s longest and costliest war - the epic failure known as the War on Drugs.
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