History: The War on Drugs

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    American Drug Policy

  • Passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act

    Passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act

  • Harry J. Anslinger Named First Commissioner of Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)

    Harry J. Anslinger Named First Commissioner of Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN)

  • Professor Timothy Leary Fired From Harvard for Drug Advocacy Ushering in Hippie Counterculture

    Professor Timothy Leary Fired From Harvard for Drug Advocacy Ushering in Hippie Counterculture

  • Nixon Declares (Illicit) Drug Abuse "Public Enemy #1"

    Nixon Declares (Illicit) Drug Abuse "Public Enemy #1"

  • Creation of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)

    Creation of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)

  • President Reagan Introduces the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984

    President Reagan Introduces the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984

  • President Reagan Signs the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

    President Reagan Signs the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986

  • Book Published: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

    Book Published: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

  • Global Commission on Drug Policy Condemns War on Drugs as Historic Failure

    Global Commission on Drug Policy Condemns War on Drugs as Historic Failure

  • Oregon Becomes First State to Decriminalize All Drugs (and shift toward treatment of drug addiction as a disease not a crime)

    Oregon Becomes First State to Decriminalize All Drugs (and shift toward treatment of drug addiction as a disease not a crime)