Al Jazeera looks at how years of punitive measures cost billions, filled prisons and did little to curb violence.
Al Jazeera looks at how years of punitive measures cost billions, filled prisons, and did little to curb violence — instead spreading it to Latin America, too.
By Farah Najjar
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More than 50 years ago, in the summer of 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” and announced what would soon be known as the country’s “war on drugs”.
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