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News Flash: Drugs Declared Winner in War on Drugs

News Flash: Drugs Declared Winner in War on Drugs

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Pamela Powers
Jul 05, 2012
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Pot-smoking hippie anti-war activists like the Chicago 7 and LSD-popping elitist Harvard medical school researchers like Timothy Leary gave poor, paranoid President Richard Nixon a hard time back in the late 1960s. As they sipped their highballs, the moral majority-- Nixon's base-- decried the nation's drug abuse.

What's a president to do? Nixon declared…

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