Some things are just too stupid to undertake -- trying to stop people from using drugs is probably one of them. We learned from alcohol prohibition that this sort of thing just doesn't work -- at least we should have learned. |
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Year | Headline | Publication | Issue Date |
1922 | Increasing drug menace and its serpentine trail | Current Opinion | May |
1925 | Losing fight against the deadly poppy | Literary Digest | Jan 3 |
1936 | Rising tide of narcotics over world | Literary Digest | May 16 |
1946 | Thirty million new addicts | Time | Jan 19 |
1951 | New York wakes up to find 15,000 teen-age dope addicts | Newsweek | Jan 29 |
1957 | Dope: congress encourages the traffic | Nation | Mar 16 |
1966 | Growing peril; teenage use of drugs for kicks | Good Housekeeping | May |
1967 | Marijuana: millions of turned on users | Life | Jul 7 |
1967 | Drugs: mounting menace of abuse | Look | Aug 8 |
1968 | Alarming rise in dope traffic | US News | Sep 2 |
1969 | Growing menace of drugs | US News | Jul 28 |
1969 | Operation impossible; drive against drugs from Mexico | Time | Oct 17 |
1970 | Kids and heroin: the adolescent epidemic | Time | Mar 16 |
1970 | Drugs: ten years to doomsday? | Saturday Review | Nov 14 |
1970 | Booming traffic in drugs: the government's dilemma | US News | Dec 7 |
1972 | Last week was a bad week for the narcs; eventual decriminalization of marijuana | Science News | Feb 19 |
1973 | Grass grows more acceptable | Time | Sep 10 |
1975 | Survey reports marijuana use has increased | Psychology Today | Apr |
1976 | Losing battle against heroin | New Republic | Feb 7 |
1977 | Mexican heroin flow continues unabated | Science | Apr 29 |
1978 | Is U.S. becoming a drug-ridden society? | US News | Aug 7 |
1979 | Growing acceptance of marijuana | USA Today (Periodical) | Feb |
1979 | Rise in cocaine use | USA Today (Periodical) | Feb |
1980 | Kids are smoking pot more and enjoying it more, HEW reports | Phi Delta Kappan | Jun |
1980 | New flood of heroin, and why it isn't stopped | US News | Dec 8 |
1981 | Marijuana: a U.S. farm crop that's booming | US News | Oct 12 |
1984 | Why the U.S. is losing the war against drugs | US News | Feb 6 |
1984 | More bad news in the war against drugs | US News | Jul 16 |
1984 | Cocaine use is epidemic in nation, report says | Jet | Nov 12 |
1985 | Flood of drugs -- a losing battle | US News | Mar 25 |
1985 | Drugs drugs everywhere -- and no solution in sight | National Review | Aug 9 |
1985 | Teen drug abuse -- the news is bad | US News | Nov 18 |
1986 | Cocaine use up sharply in '84 government study says | Jet | Jan 13 |
1986 | The latest antidrug war: better luck this time? | US News | Aug 25 |
1986 | Cocaine: an American epidemic? | Current Health | Nov |
1986 | The U.S. campaign against international narcotics trafficking: a cure worse than the disease | USA Today (Periodical) | Nov |
1987 | The drug war bogs down | Time | Nov 23 |
1988 | Where the war is being lost | Time | Mar 14 |
1988 | Losing the war? | Newsweek | Mar 14 |
1988 | An explosion of drug labs | Newsweek | Apr 25 |
1988 | The lost 'drug war' | National Review | May 27 |
1988 | A bumper crop of hothouse marijuana | Newsweek | Aug 15 |
1988 | Losing the drugwar: drugs, banks, and Florida politics | American Spectator | Sep |
1989 | A lost cause is a lost cause | National Review | Sep 29 |
1989 | Why we're losing the war on drugs | Reader's Digest | Oct |
1990 | A failed 'test case': Washington's drug war | Newsweek | Jan 29 |
1990 | In the cocaine war ... the jungle is winning | NY Times Magazine | Mar 4 |
1990 | The streets are filled with coke | US News | Mar 5 |
1990 | The war that will not end [cocaine cartels vs gov't] | Time | Jul 23 |
1990 | D.C.'s War on drugs: why Bennett is losing | New York Times Magazine | Sep 23 |
1990 | A losing battle | Time | Dec 3 |
1991 | The flow goes on [cocaine trade] | Time | Aug 26 |
1991 | An unproductive war against drugs | Forbes | Nov 11 |
1992 | Cracks in the drug war: why the U.S.-Andean alliance to stop the cocaine flow is in trouble | US News | Mar 2 |
1992 | Losing battles in the war on drugs | World Press Review | Jun |
1992 | Rangel cites statistics revealing U.S. is losing in its war on drugs | Jet | Sep 21 |
1993 | Worldwide drug scourge: the expanding trade in illicit drugs | Brookings Review | Winter |
1993 | Clinton's drug policy is a bust | Time | Dec 20 |
1995 | Use of illegal drugs up among youth across U.S.: University of Michigan poll | Jet | Jan 9 |
1996 | The war on drugs is lost | National Review | Feb 12 |
1996 | Why this country is losing the drug war | US News | Sep 16 |
1996 | Give pot a chance: voters in California and Arizona strike a blow against the war on drugs | Rolling Stone | Dec 26 |
1997 | War ends, drugs win | Nation | Jan 6 |
1997 | The drug war's phony fix: why certification doesn't work | Nation | Apr 28 |
1998 | The lost war on drugs | World Press Review | Feb |
1998 | A flow of powerful pot | Maclean's | Aug 3 |
2001 | Lifting the lid on a failed drug war | World Press Review | Mar |
2001 | The war against the war on drugs | Time | May 7 |
2001 | It's time to give up the war on drugs | Business Week | Sep 17 |
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