The True Origins of the War on Drugs
08/09/17 • 16 min
One trillion dollars. That’s how much the United States has spent in the last 40 years on the war on drugs. Currently, more than 450,000 Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses—up from 40,000 in 1980. In the federal system alone, almost half of all inmates are drug offenders. Despite the government’s investment in this war, America remains the No. 1 country in the world for illicit drug use, and in 2015, overdose deaths reached an all-time high, claiming 50,000 lives. To better understand this endless drug war we wanted to find out how it all started. And the trail led to a man most Americans have never heard of.
News Beat is an MP Studios production, a division of Morey Publishing www.MoreyPublishing.com
News Beat is produced and engineered by Michael “Manny Faces” Conforti www.MannyFaces.com
Original Music Supervision by Eden White www.EdenWhiteMusic.com
News Beat Executive Producer is Jed Morey Editor in Chief: Christopher TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianCover Art Design: Jon Chim
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One trillion dollars. That’s how much the United States has spent in the last 40 years on the war on drugs. Currently, more than 450,000 Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses—up from 40,000 in 1980. In the federal system alone, almost half of all inmates are drug offenders. Despite the government’s investment in this war, America remains the No. 1 country in the world for illicit drug use, and in 2015, overdose deaths reached an all-time high, claiming 50,000 lives. To better understand this endless drug war we wanted to find out how it all started. And the trail led to a man most Americans have never heard of.
News Beat is an MP Studios production, a division of Morey Publishing www.MoreyPublishing.com
News Beat is produced and engineered by Michael “Manny Faces” Conforti www.MannyFaces.com
Original Music Supervision by Eden White www.EdenWhiteMusic.com
News Beat Executive Producer is Jed Morey Editor in Chief: Christopher TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianCover Art Design: Jon Chim
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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