50 Years Later, Is America's War On Drugs At A Turning Point?
b'In June 1971, then-President Richard Nixon said the U.S. had a new public enemy number one: addiction. It was the beginning of America\'s long war on drugs.
Fifty years later, during months of interviews, NPR found a growing consensus across the political spectrum \\u2014 including among some in law enforcement \\u2014 that the drug war simply didn\'t work.
The stories in this episode are from NPR\'s Brian Mann and Eric Westervelt as part of a special series: The War On Drugs: 50 Years Later.
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