https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2017/06/20/the-us-war-on-drugs-started-46-years-ago-this-week--is-it-time-for-a-ceasefire.aspxOn June 17, 1971, Richard Nixon kicked off America’s War on Drugs . His stated goal was to make the drug trade less profitable, reduce the number of people addicted to drugs, to invest the resources necessary to interdict narcotics headed into theenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)